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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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A man who regularly does this kind of lifting, he warned, “will become as inflexible as a cart-horse.”
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A man who regularly does this kind of lifting, he warned, “will become as inflexible as a cart-horse.”
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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.
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We have had to lighten a heavy cart-horse named Charley.
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