warhorse

IPA: wˈɔrhɔrs

(historical, military) Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armoured knight.
(figurative, informal) An experienced person who has been through many battles, situations or contests; someone who has given long service.
(theater, music) A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.

Examples of "warhorse" in Sentences

She might take exception to it because a Georgia warhorse is a big grasshopper.
Currently, however, he's in legal-eagle mode, suited up as "warhorse" lawyer Jack
I shouldn't refer to the queen of pop as a "warhorse", they shoot old horses, don't they?
I shouldn ` t refer to the queen of pop as a "warhorse", they shoot old horses, don ` t they?
And then, of course, if you're wearing pads, you can always tell the readers that their cherished warhorse is kind of lousy.
Another warhorse is John Ciardi’s How Does a Poem Mean?, first published in 1959 and widely used in high schools and colleges in its day.
Zhu pointed out that simultaneously keeping Dali "neither as enemy nor as subject was the best of all measures to handle the barbarians" (yu kou bu neng, yu chen bu de, zuide yurong shangce) .111 However, military demand instead drove Song China to open its gates to Dali, because the Dali Kingdom cultivated a local animal that Song China did not produce but badly desired, that is, the warhorse.