Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the British army, a horse for carrying baggage belonging to an officer or to the baggage-train. Also written
bawhorse .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
horse which carries anofficer 'sbaggage during acampaign .
Etymologies
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French bat packsaddle (cheval de bat packhorse) + English horse. See bastard and batman.
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