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单词 dray-horse
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dray-horsen.

Etymology: < dray n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdray-horse.
A large and powerful horse used for drawing a dray. So dray-horse vb. (rare).
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1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 60. ⁋10 A Discourse on the Nature of the Elephant, the Cow, the Dray-Horse.
1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 26 She is condemn'd to do more Drudgery than a Dray-horse.
1820 B. 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.
1857 R. B. Paul Lett. from Canterbury i. 19 One of Mr. Russell's men then mounted a dray-horse.
1896 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (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.
1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xix. 298 Damn ye, the dray horse wouldn't go in the shafts of that cart.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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