dray horse

a draft horse used for pulling a dray.

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

Fancy Carmen frightened by an ordinary horse, not even a dray-horse, of which no Carmen would have been afraid!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890|Various
The dray-horse of these countries has a large share of Flemish blood in him.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual|Charles Alexander Cameron
Awakened by the oath, he just got out of the way of a huge Flemish dray-horse dragging a brewer's cart.
Dreamers of the Ghetto|I. Zangwill
It was as marvellous as though a man should walk down the street carrying a dray-horse on his back.
Cyrus Hall McCormick|Herbert Newton Casson

His lady, who has to work all day like a dray-horse and scold the servants besides, to get things into order, loses her temper.
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson|Anthony Trollope