carthorse

carthorse

English

Alternative forms

• cart horse
• cart-horse

Etymology

cart +‎ horse

Noun

carthorse (plural carthorses)

1. A large, strong horse used for pulling heavy loads.
   • 1840, Horace Smith (ed.), Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, of the Late James Smith

     The blacksmith's forge shone bright on the opposite side of the way, and the proprietor had the hind-leg of a carthorse in his leather-coated lap.

   • 1852, Charles Dickens, Household Words

     He is not a man of independent fortune, for he works like a carthorse.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619, page 16:

     Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

Anagrams

• horsecart, orchestra, rheocrats