carriage horse

noun

1. a horse trained and groomed to draw carriages.

Word History and Origins

Origin of carriage horse¹

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

Lots of bishops do it now, he told me; it is the same as putting a carriage-horse out to grass: there is no work, but less corn.

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Accordingly I told Peter to saddle the toughest-mouthed, hardest-trotting carriage horse in the stable.

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A carriage-horse champed its bit, and the still watchers turned at once to that intrusive sound.

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Two hornets will kill a man, and three a carriage-horse sixteen hands high.

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"You might perhaps do with only one carriage-horse," she remarked.

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