Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A horse that draws a cart, or is intended or suitable for such work.

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Examples

  • I knew from previous shifts that my thighs would hurt as if I'd done the Grand National on a cart-horse the next morning.

    Riding the tube to work Gill Hoffs 2011

  • It's like the difference between a cart-horse and a thoroughbred; I had to be the cart-horse!

    Shira Lazar: Join 'The Inspired Nation'! Shira Lazar 2010

  • It's like the difference between a cart-horse and a thoroughbred; I had to be the cart-horse!

    Shira Lazar: Join 'The Inspired Nation'! Shira Lazar 2010

  • The cart-horse Boxer (Russian working class) devotes himself to the cause with particular passion, committing his great strength to the prosperity of the farm and adopting as a personal axiom the affirmation "I will work harder."

    ANIMAL FARM - 2009 2009

  • Dasie's cart-horse mount disliked the fuss and noise of the warriors who helped their Great One up on her horse's back.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • “A cart-horse thinks so,” said Mowbray; “but we must do as others do, and gentlemen and ladies are of a different opinion.”

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • A man who regularly does this kind of lifting, he warned, “will become as inflexible as a cart-horse.”

    From the Ancient Greeks to Yoga Chic 2006

  • A man who regularly does this kind of lifting, he warned, “will become as inflexible as a cart-horse.”

    From the Ancient Greeks to Yoga Chic 2006

  • I think his nose too long, his forehead too low, and his legs (except in the case of the cart-horse) ridiculously thin by comparison with the size of his body.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • We have had to lighten a heavy cart-horse named Charley.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

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