workhorse
[wurk-hawrs]
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Origin of workhorse
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Related Words for workhorse
laborer, servant, worker, serf, captive, victim, drudge, chattel, help, toiler, vassal, thrall, retainer, peon, menial, workhorse, skivvy, slave, doer, pistolExamples from the Web for workhorse
Contemporary Examples of workhorse
Through all of this, however, Howe was, as he always is, the workhorse of the Red Wings.
As a lawmaker, she has always been more of a show pony than a workhorse.
The 737 is a world-wide daily workhorse on domestic routes, sometimes making as many as seven flights a day.
Sedgwick often turns to the word “workhorse” to describe herself.
House Minority Leader John Boehner has also been a workhorse, raising more than $44 million for GOP candidates and committees.
Historical Examples of workhorse
The Holter, that workhorse of the water, plodded stolidly on its appointed way.
The Spell of the White SturgeonJames Arthur Kjelgaard
workhorse
- a horse used for nonrecreational activities
- informal a person who takes on the greatest amount of work in a project or job
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