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Definition of Dray horse
1. Noun. Horse adapted for drawing heavy loads.
Generic synonyms: Workhorse
Specialized synonyms: Cart Horse, Carthorse, Drayhorse, Clydesdale, Percheron, Shire, Shire Horse, Pole Horse, Poler, Wheel Horse, Wheeler, Coach Horse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dray Horse
Literary usage of Dray horse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horse by William Youatt, Walker Watson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1874)
"The great fault of the large dray-horse is his slowness. ... If the produce is
a filly, let her bo covered by a superior dray-horse, and the result of this ..."
2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"We have much discourse here of a ad Sampson; one William Joyce, aged 24, of middle
stature, born in Kent, who this week out drew the strongest dray horse ..."
3. Scientific Management: A Collection of the More Significant Articles edited by Clarence Bertrand Thompson (1914)
"In the same way we know that a great big dray horse is not a " first class "
horse for hauling a grocery wagon, nor is a grocery wagon horse " first class ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1858)
"This was a colt of great substance, promising to make a dray-horse. These colts
were also both victorious for the special prizes under the same heading. ..."
5. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1822)
"... can we expect to succeed by using elements as heterogeneous as the union of
a draught mare and a race horse, or of a dray horse .with a saddle filly ? ..."
6. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"The bays and browns, moreover, are frequently dappled also on their quarters,
which is decidedly a dray-horse characteristic and beauty ; while it is, ..."
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