cart horse


noun
  1. a strong horse bred to draw heavy loads; draft horse.

Origin of cart horse

1
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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How to use cart horse in a sentence

  • Nothing will make them move faster—like whipping a carthorse into a gallop; it soon dies away in the old jog-trot.

    The Hills and the Vale | Richard Jefferies
  • Some short time afterwards a carthorse was found in the fields stabbed in several places, though, fortunately, not severely.

    Hodge and His Masters | Richard Jefferies
  • He was as big as a carthorse, as graceful as a dray and as meek as a missionary.

    At Good Old Siwash | George Fitch
  • There was a concussion, and the black horse came staggering sideways, and the carthorse pushed beside it.

    The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells
  • The Carthorse she calls herself, but not of your family surely, for you are like wild Arab colt.

    Polly the Pagan | Isabel Anderson

British Dictionary definitions for carthorse

carthorse

/ (ˈkɑːtˌhɔːs) /


noun
  1. a large heavily built horse kept for pulling carts or carriages

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