carthorse
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- noun
- /ˈkɑrˌhɔrs/
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caballo de tiro
- Known for their strength, carthorses have been used for centuries to transport goods and materials.
Examples
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The most impressive thing I've seen are the brewery carthorses; they are all as tall as I am!
Academic text (1993) -
The farmer relied on his carthorse to pull heavy loads of hay from the field.
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But a good German girl knows... never to mix the blood of a racehorse with that of a carthorse.
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There is an old saying that I can paraphrase by saying that if the task demands carthorses, then more is indeed better.
Blog text (21) -
All the same, when a drunken man, who was being carted off somewhere in an enormous dray drawn by an equally enormous carthorse, suddenly yelled as he went by: "Hey, you, German hatter!"
Fiction book (1991) -
As the sun rose, the carthorse began its daily work of hauling wagons through the village.
Synonyms
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A large strong horse that pulls heavy loads like a cart or plow
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A strong horse used to pull heavy loads on a farm
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An animal like a horse or ox that pulls heavy loads on a farm
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A strong horse used to pull carts or heavy loads
A large strong horse that pulls heavy carts or wagons
A very large strong British horse used to pull heavy loads like carts
A horse trained to pull a cart or carriage
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carthorse is simply the two words cart and horse. A cart is a 'small wagon' and a carthorse was a horse used to pull a cart, so the word now means a large, strong horse for pulling heavy loads.