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dray horse

American  

noun

  1. a draft horse used for pulling a dray.


Example Sentences

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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