drayhorse

/ ˈdreɪˌhɔːs /

noun

1. a large powerful horse used for drawing a dray

Example Sentences

Six feet six towered this hair-thicketed ogre, with a chest like a drayhorse, and arms as thick as stovepipes.

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Pegasus were more truly figured as a drayhorse than a steed with wings; he jogs along trot-trot, and occasionally he stands at an obstinate pause.

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She lifts Tobin's hand, which is own brother to the hoof of a drayhorse, and examines it to see whether 'tis a stone in the frog or a cast shoe he has come for.

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