carthorse
English
Alternative forms
- cart horse
- cart-horse
Etymology
Noun
carthorse (plural carthorses)
- A large, strong horse used for pulling heavy loads.
- 1840, Horace Smith (ed.), Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, of the Late James Smith
- The blacksmith's forge shone bright on the opposite side of the way, and the proprietor had the hind-leg of a carthorse in his leather-coated lap.
- 1852, Charles Dickens, Household Words
- He is not a man of independent fortune, for he works like a carthorse.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, OCLC 16832619, page 16:
- Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
- 1840, Horace Smith (ed.), Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, of the Late James Smith
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