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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 83 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUMPTER , a See also:

pack-See also:horse or See also:mule, a beast for carrying burdens, particularly for military purposes. There were two words once in use, which in sense, if not in See also:form, have coalesced. These are See also:sommer " or " summer " and " sumpter." The first comes through the Old See also:French sommier, a pack-horse, the other through sommelier, a pack-horse See also:driver. Both come ultimately from See also:Late See also:Lat. salma, from sagma, a pack, See also:burden, Old French See also:somme, saume; See also:Greek vayµa, burden, aarreu', to load. " Sumpter " in the sense of a driver of a pack-horse is rare, and the word is always joined with another explanatory word.

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