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dray horse Examples noun
- a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
Examples from the Web for dray horse Historical Examples of dray horse
Look at the race and dray-horse, or at the greyhound and mastiff.
Charles Darwin
The dray-horse of these countries has a large share of Flemish blood in him.
Charles Alexander Cameron
Awakened by the oath, he just got out of the way of a huge Flemish dray-horse dragging a brewer’s cart.
I. Zangwill
It was as marvellous as though a man should walk down the street carrying a dray-horse on his back.
Herbert Newton Casson
His lady, who has to work all day like a dray-horse and scold the servants besides, to get things into order, loses her temper.
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson
Anthony Trollope