packhorse

1. 1.

   a workhorse used as a pack animal

   Broaderworkhorsepack animal

Other forms of packhorse

plural

packhorses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about packhorse

What does packhorse mean?

packhorse means "a workhorse used as a pack animal".

How many syllables are in packhorse?

packhorse has 2 syllables and divides as pack-horse under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.