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sumpter

[ suhmp-ter ]

noun

  1. a packhorse or mule.


sumpter

/ ˈsʌmptə /

noun

  1. archaic.
    a packhorse, mule, or other beast of burden
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sumpter1

1275–1325; Middle English sompter < Old French sometier pack-horse driver < Vulgar Latin *saumatārius, equivalent to Latin sagmat- (stem of sagma; summer 2 ) + -ārius -ary
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sumpter1

C14: from Old French sometier driver of a baggage horse, from Vulgar Latin sagmatārius (unattested), from Late Latin sagma packsaddle
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Example Sentences

TV and film star Tika Sumpter on the film, her own dark skin, and breaking the color barrier, shade by shade.

The sage Maester Luwin (Donald Sumpter) serves the Starks of Winterfell, for example.

Orangeburgh surrendered to the American Gen. Sumpter; prisoners taken, 82.

The brothers answered 'Yes,' and that in very truth it was for him that they asked for the sumpter beast.

I have carried all that I had into France in a wallet, and it hath taken four sumpter-mules to carry it back again.

Sir Nigel rode in front with his squires, while the two archers followed behind with the sumpter mule between them.

They drove up to the door of Government House in their travelling equipage, saddle and sumpter horses following.

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