workhorse

See also: work horse

English

From work +‎ horse.

workhorse (plural workhorses)

A horse used primarily for manual labor; a draft horse.
Synonyms: (Britain, dialectal, one sense) aver, draft horse
(by extension) Anyone or anything that does a lot of work; something or someone who works consistently or regularly.
Those old machines are not very glamorous, but even 20 years after their introduction, they are still the workhorses of the industry.
- 2018 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Spain 2-3 England”, in BBC Sport‎:
  Captain Harry Kane was the workhorse and creator, while Sterling and Rashford provided the finishing flourishes that put England in dreamland at the interval.

horse used primarily for work

Azerbaijani: işlək at
Bashkir: эш аты (eş atı)
Danish: arbejdshest c
Dutch: werkpaard (nl)
Finnish: työhevonen (fi)
German: Arbeitspferd n
Hungarian: igásló (hu)
Icelandic: klár (is) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: arbeidshest m
Nynorsk: arbeidshest m
Romanian: cal de tracțiune m
Russian: тя́гловая ло́шадь f (tjáglovaja lóšadʹ), ломова́я ло́шадь (ru) f (lomovája lóšadʹ)
Swedish: arbetshäst (sv)

anyone that does a lot of work

Danish: arbejdshest c
Dutch: werkpaard (nl) n
Finnish: työjuhta
French: bourreau de travail (fr)
German: Arbeitstier (de) n
Icelandic: (to be a real workhorse) víkingur til vinnu m, (to be a real workhorse) hamhleypa til vinnu m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: arbeidshest m
Nynorsk: arbeidshest m
Russian: ломова́я ло́шадь (ru) f (lomovája lóšadʹ), стаха́новец (ru) m (staxánovec) (Stakhanovite)