SUMPTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sumpter mean? 

• SUMPTER (noun)
  The noun SUMPTER has 1 sense:

1. an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads

  Familiarity information: SUMPTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMPTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pack animal; sumpter

Hypernyms ("sumpter" is a kind of...):

beast of burden; jument (an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sumpter"):

packhorse (a workhorse used as a pack animal)

 Context examples 

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

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Have Pommers ready at mid-day with my sycamore lance, and place my harness on the sumpter mule.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the Lymington River they splashed through the ford, and lay in the meadows on the further side to eat the bread and salt meat which they carried upon the sumpter horses.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After them came twenty-seven sumpter horses carrying tent-poles, cloth, spare arms, spurs, wedges, cooking kettles, horse-shoes, bags of nails and the hundred other things which experience had shown to be needful in a harried and hostile country.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They took with them the sumpter mules, which carried in panniers the wardrobe and table furniture of Sir Nigel; for the knight, though neither fop nor epicure, was very dainty in small matters, and loved, however bare the board or hard the life, that his napery should still be white and his spoon of silver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)