wheel horse
Americannoun
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Also called wheeler. a horse, or one of the horses, harnessed behind others and nearest the front wheels of a vehicle.
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Chiefly South Atlantic States. the left-hand horse of a pair hitched to a wagon or plow.
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Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a reliable, diligent, and strong worker.
noun
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another word for wheeler
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a person who works steadily or hard
Etymology
Origin of wheel horse
First recorded in 1700–10
Example Sentences
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“It’s a new economy and a new way of life, and the origins are the invention of the wheel, horse riding, and dairying.”
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 15, 2021
Not so rapid was the progress of FCC's monopoly-investigating committee, first presided over by Chairman McNinch, later by fat-jowled, cautious Thaddeus Harold Brown, Republican wheel horse of the Commission.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is Zenko Suzuki, 69, a little-known party wheel horse who unexpectedly emerged last week as the compromise candidate of the Liberal Democrats' feuding factions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Sir Austen faded into the Conservative Party's greatest wheel horse, wearing his father's monocle, not the orchid.
From Time Magazine Archive
These horses were driven by the oldest man in service on the Calabasas run, mounted on the near wheel horse with the driver's seat on the box empty and covered with wreaths of flowers.
From Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
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