cart horse

noun

a strong horse bred to draw heavy loads; draft horse.

Origin of cart horse

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Words nearby cart horse

Cartesian space, cartful, Carthage, Carthaginian, Carthaginian peace, cart horse, Carthusian, Cartier, Cartier-Bresson, cartilage, cartilage bone

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Example sentences from the Web for cart horse

In a few minutes we heard Tweedler's cart-horse tread, as he came through the lobby, with two books in his hand.
Lancashire Sketches|Edwin Waugh
The colts who live here are very good colts, but they are cart-horse colts, and of course they have not learned manners.
Black Beauty|Anna Sewell
But a cart-horse might as well hope to gallop away from a thorough-bred racer as that ship to outsail the Jean Bart.
The Log of a Privateersman|Harry Collingwood
My two ponies were the only occupants of my stable except a cart-horse.
Theodore Roosevelt|Theodore Roosevelt

On the contrary, by putting stallions built for drawing loads to mares similarly built, Man has produced the cart-horse.
Twentieth Century Socialism|Edmond Kelly

British Dictionary definitions for cart horse

carthorse

/ (ˈkɑːtˌhɔːs) /

noun

a large heavily built horse kept for pulling carts or carriages

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单词	cart horse
释义	cart horse noun a strong horse bred to draw heavy loads; draft horse. Origin of cart horse Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400 Words nearby cart horse Cartesian space, cartful, Carthage, Carthaginian, Carthaginian peace, cart horse, Carthusian, Cartier, Cartier-Bresson, cartilage, cartilage bone Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cart horse In a few minutes we heard Tweedler's cart-horse tread, as he came through the lobby, with two books in his hand. Lancashire Sketches\|Edwin Waugh The colts who live here are very good colts, but they are cart-horse colts, and of course they have not learned manners. Black Beauty\|Anna Sewell But a cart-horse might as well hope to gallop away from a thorough-bred racer as that ship to outsail the Jean Bart. The Log of a Privateersman\|Harry Collingwood My two ponies were the only occupants of my stable except a cart-horse. Theodore Roosevelt\|Theodore Roosevelt On the contrary, by putting stallions built for drawing loads to mares similarly built, Man has produced the cart-horse. Twentieth Century Socialism\|Edmond Kelly British Dictionary definitions for cart horse carthorse / (ˈkɑːtˌhɔːs) / noun a large heavily built horse kept for pulling carts or carriages Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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