dray horse
Americannoun
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At the same time, he turned the Joint Special Operations Command into a dray horse.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2017
There is malaria and an imperilled dray horse.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2012
There is something essentially Liverpudlian about Matthew Street, in the centre of the markets and warehouses, where a dray horse with flowered bonnet stands by the Cavern entrance oblivious to the beatniks and the noise.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2012
Thirty years Vail's senior, he still works like a dray horse, turning up at 6 every morning and averaging five hours of sleep a night.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was riding one dray horse and leading the others.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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