coach horse

noun

1. a horse, usually strong and heavily built, for drawing a coach.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coach horse¹

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

They have been whipped by them, as no sober postillion would whip a hackney coach horse.

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But the Devil's Coach-horse makes it serve a double purpose.

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The scientific name of the dardaol is "ocypus olens," in English he is sometimes called the "devil's coach-horse."

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I was a General, under those trees, a General with a plume like a mourning coach-horse, and armed to the teeth.

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A Hackney-coach Horse declared himself in favor of the sliding-scale, which he understood to mean the wooden pavement.

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