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carthorse

/ ˈkɑːtˌhɔːs /

noun

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


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

Some short time afterwards a carthorse was found in the fields stabbed in several places, though, fortunately, not severely.

He was as big as a carthorse, as graceful as a dray and as meek as a missionary.

There was a concussion, and the black horse came staggering sideways, and the carthorse pushed beside it.

The Carthorse she calls herself, but not of your family surely, for you are like wild Arab colt.

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