Carthorse

Alternative forms

• cart horse
• cart-horse

Full definition of carthorse

Noun

1. 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 SmithThe 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 WordsHe is not a man of independent fortune, for he works like a carthorse.
• 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate Chapter Prologue, 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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