dray horse
- noun
- /dreɪ hɔrs/
- Archaic
:
caballo de tiro
- When the bars closed, George sometimes returned to the newsroom instead of to his apartment, just as an old dray horse, when left on slack reins, will haul its cart back along a familiar route to the place it thinks of as home.
Examples
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As the sun set, the dray horse trudged along, pulling the cart filled with fresh produce to market.
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Jimmy, you know what you feed a dray horse in the morning -if you want a day's work out of him?
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They've been working him like a dray horse.
Fiction book (1992) -
A steam cloud rose up with the smell of boiled cotton, and the dray horse snuffled and stepped.
Fiction book (1996) -
The air buzzed like a beehive with ordinary conversations accompanied by the clop of dray horses' hooves against the cobbles of Orchard Street.
Fiction book (1992) -
The farmer relied on his dray horse to pull heavy loads of hay from the field to the barn.
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In the village, the dray horse was well-known for its strength and ability to carry heavy wagons for the local farmers.
Synonyms
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3.8
A large strong horse that pulls heavy loads like a cart or plow
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3.4
A strong horse used to pull heavy loads on a farm
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9.6
A large strong horse used to pull heavy carts or wagons
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7.7
A large strong animal that pulls heavy carts or wagons
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3.2
A strong horse used to pull carts or heavy loads
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Etymology
Dray horse comes from the word dray, an old low cart used to move heavy goods like barrels. A dray horse was the big, steady horse that pulled that cart, so the name means 'a horse for pulling heavy loads'.