dray horse
- a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
Show More
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for dray horse
Historical Examples of dray horse
Look at the race and dray-horse, or at the greyhound and mastiff.
On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin
The dray-horse of these countries has a large share of Flemish blood in him.
The Stock-Feeder's ManualCharles 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 GhettoI. Zangwill
It was as marvellous as though a man should walk down the street carrying a dray-horse on his back.
Cyrus Hall McCormickHerbert 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 RobinsonAnthony Trollope