How to use dray horse in a sentence
I do not know how it happened, but when the head-yards were swung, I found myself pulling at the fore-brace, like a dray horse.
Miles Wallingford | James Fenimore CooperHe leaned against a filing-case like a heavy dray horse which had come to a final stop.
Whispering Wires | Henry LeverageHow much more wise were the animals—and I raised my hand to stroke a huge dray-horse by the pavement.
Shandygaff | Christopher MorleyHe would not be more astonished than would the ancient Eohippus on meeting with a modern dray-horse.
Theism or Atheism | Chapman CohenShe who had been a broad-backed dray-horse, upon whose hind-quarters pierrots might waltz, became a colt in a field.
The Voyage Out | Virginia Woolf
British Dictionary definitions for drayhorse
/ (ˈdreɪˌhɔːs) /
a large powerful horse used for drawing a dray
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