(1) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(2) The loud whine of the larger packhorses that Boston Dynamics produces has become recognisable to followers of the company’s machines, but apparently it doesn’t please the soldiers who are expected to fight alongside them.
(3) They look like a giant's churn but may also get their name from supposed use by packhorse merchants for keeping butter and other perishables cool in Yorkshire's famously sunny weather – Leeds, where the Tour will start, is dryer than Barcelona.
(4) Angus Hanton, the co-founder of the IF and joint author of the index, said: "Like overloaded packhorses, our young people are becoming increasingly burdened by other generations' debts while loaded down with debts other generations have never had to pay, such as £9,000-a-year student tuition fees and record housing costs.
Sumpter
Definition:
(n.) The driver of a pack horse.
(n.) A pack; a burden.
(n.) An animal, especially a horse, that carries packs or burdens; a baggage horse.
(a.) Carrying pack or burdens on the back; as, a sumpter horse; a sumpter mule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Written and directed by 31-year-old Richard Tanne, Southside with You stars Parker Sawyers as Barack and Tika Sumpter as Michelle; the executive producer is the musician and Obama fan John Legend.
(2) Off the coast of Vietnam, on the USS Sumpter, Captain JS Keuger also banned the music of the Last Poets, whose recordings included When The Revolution Comes.
(3) Karen Ashton, of the Public Law Solicitors who represents Sumpter, said: "What is at the heart of this legal challenge is fairness.
(4) Sumpter suffers from ME which causes him increasing mobility problems.