Definitions
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- noun A person who labors heavily for a particular cause, without being concerned about recognition
Etymologies
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Examples
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A woman stood on tip-toe gritting her teeth in exasperation as she tugged at the check-rein on the big wheelhorse, which stuck obstinately in the ring.
The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916
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T.e only speech was made by the Solon who had the bill called up, a familiar organization wheelhorse, named Meachy T. Bangor, who quoted with unconcealed triumph from the morning's _Post_, wholly ignoring all the careful safeguards and tearing out of the context only such portions as suited his humor and his need.
Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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Jim Cash was Mo Mercer's right-hand man; in the language of refined society, he, vas "Mo's toady," - in the language of Hardscrabble, he was "Mo's wheelhorse."
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RJJensen 13: 40, 28 August 2009 (EDT) farm programs (AAA) had no relation to anything in Europe either -- it was thought out in Iowa and Montana, son of an old American communist wheelhorse, "Mother" Ella Reeve Bloor, benefited in the early 1920s from the patronage of Münzenberg's network.
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RJJensen 13: 40, 28 August 2009 (EDT) farm programs (AAA) had no relation to anything in Europe either -- it was thought out in Iowa and Montana, son of an old American communist wheelhorse, "Mother" Ella Reeve Bloor, benefited in the early 1920s from the patronage of Münzenberg's network.
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RJJensen 13: 40, 28 August 2009 (EDT) farm programs (AAA) had no relation to anything in Europe either -- it was thought out in Iowa and Montana, son of an old American communist wheelhorse, "Mother" Ella Reeve Bloor, benefited in the early 1920s from the patronage of Münzenberg's network.
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"Where do you find time for poetry, you old wheelhorse!
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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