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carthorse

British  
/ ˈkɑːtˌhɔːs /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"I am a carthorse," says BBC Breakfast weather presenter Carol Kirkwood.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2015

Jamelia says her dancing is "the family joke" and despite Carol's belief she is like a carthorse on the dancefloor Jamelia believes the standard of dancing this year is pretty good.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2015

Any rose-tinted specs have been well and truly smashed under the fat hooves of an overworked, fleablown carthorse.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2013

Her winning poem, "Clothes that escaped the Great War", tells of the plodding carthorse who would take boys away to war, and then return, later, with just their clothes.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2013

He's a player, and as ugly as an old mangy carthorse.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

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