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ˈdray-horse
[f. dray n.1]
A large and powerful horse used for drawing a dray. So dray-horse vb. (rare).
1709Steele Tatler No. 60 ⁋10 A Discourse on the Nature of the Elephant, the Cow, the Dray-Horse. 1756Foote Eng. fr. Paris i. Wks. 1799 I. 106 She is condemned to do more drudgery than a dray-horse. 1820B. Silliman Jrnl. Trav. (ed. 2) III. 86 When we speak of a London dray-horse, we must understand an animal which in size resembles an elephant rather than a horse. 1857R. B. Paul Lett. fr. Canterbury, N.Z. i. 19 One of Mr. Russell's men then mounted a dray-horse. 1896‘Mark Twain’ Let. (1917) II. 637 You have been dray-horsing over the same tiresome ground for a year. 1906‘O. Henry’ Four Million 4 She lifts Tobin's hand, which is own brother to the hoof of a dray horse. 1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xix. 298 Damn ye, the dray horse wouldn't go in the shafts of that cart. |