carthorse

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Etymology

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From cart +‎ horse.

Noun

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carthorse (plural carthorses)

  1. A large, strong horse used for pulling heavy loads.
    • 1840, Horace Smith, editor, Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, of the Late James Smith[1]:
      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 [], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, [], →OCLC, 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.

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