shaftern.
/ˈʃɑːftə//ˈʃaftə/ A shaft-horse. Also: any animal which goes in the shafts of a vehicle.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > team of > horse(s) attached to or between shafts
thill-horsec1325
limoneer1524
thiller1552
body horse1558
fill-horse1600
limber1632
filler1695
pole horse1725
shaft-horse1769
wheel-pair1794
wheeler1813
shafter1840
1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. x. 137 A London brewer's shafter wouldn't make the smallest part of a circumstance to him.
1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle N.-W. Passage by Land (1867) viii. 126 The..dogs [of the sleigh] were not equal to the emergency... The leader was willing, but young..; the middle one..was aged and asthmatic; and the shafter,..lame and lethargic.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Shafther, the horse, where there are more than one, which is placed between the shafts of a cart.
1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 824/2 The cook alternately crooned and swore at the old shafter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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