dray horse
IPA: drˈeɪhˈɔrs
noun
- horse adapted for drawing heavy loads
drayhorse
IPA: drˈeɪhɔrs
noun
- draft horse kept for pulling carts
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Examples of "drayhorse" in Sentences
Examples of "dray-horse" in Sentences
- Like a willing dray-horse the Wolseley responds to it.
- "He doesn't want to be used as a dray-horse," observed Leo, sympathetically.
- Gyalpo, which kept turning out either too small for a mule or too big for a dray-horse.
- He is, moreover, as strong as a dray-horse, and as handy, so John declares, "as a fiddle."
- He would not be more astonished than would the ancient Eohippus on meeting with a modern dray-horse.
- “A sture woife, and a dour,” said one Cumbrian peasant, as he clattered by in his wooden brogues, with a noise like the trampling of a dray-horse.
- As they rode along the forest, they met Athelstane the Thane powdering along the road in the direction of Rotherwood on his great dray-horse of a charger.
- Thus, the spaniel and the greyhound, the dray-horse and the Arab, the pouter and the tumbler, breed together with perfect freedom, and their mongrels, if matched with other mongrels of the same kind, are equally fertile.
- We have since found out, by experience in Egypt, that these camels were of what may be called the cart-horse breed, and there is about as much difference in riding such a one and a properly-trained dromedary as there is between a dray-horse and a thoroughbred.
- I had frequently seen him before, and wondered at him; he was barely fifteen hands, but he had the girth of a metropolitan dray-horse; his head was small in comparison with his immense neck, which curved down nobly to his wide back: his chest was broad and fine, and his shoulders models of symmetry and strength; he stood well and powerfully upon his legs, which were somewhat short.
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