- A
draft horse (US) or
draught horse (UK), also
known as dray horse,
carthorse, work
horse or
heavy horse, is a
large horse bred to be a
working animal...
- on a farm: I saw a
little boy,
perhaps ten
years old,
driving a huge
carthorse along a
narrow path,
whipping it
whenever it
tried to turn. It struck...
- as 'Adam's Block'. More
stables were
built in the 1890s for the farm
carthorses. Some of the
dressed stone blocks from
which the old
stables and offices...
- the Dales, and by 1923 the Army was
buying only
Dales with no
signs of
carthorse blood. The
modern Dales shows no
signs of
Clydesdale characteristics.: 294 : 173 ...
- compare, then it is
deemed to come first; for example, "cart"
comes before "
carthorse".) The
result of
arranging a set of
strings in
alphabetical order is that...
- Not
valued by his new
French owner, it is
believed he was used as a
carthorse. The
horse was then
imported from
France by
Edward Coke and sent to his...
- 5 ft (1,524 mm)
apart probably derives from the
width needed to fit a
carthorse in
between the shafts. Research, however, has been
undertaken to support...
-
applied widely in
Scandinavia to, for example, "sweetmeats or to
stout carthorses". Vanadís, one of Freyja's names, is the
source of the name of the chemical...
-
possessing a
plain head with a
slight Roman nose and
hindquarters like a
carthorse. He had good feet,
strong legs and was very powerful, however, giving...
- "The
Citizen and the Traveller", "The
Distinguished Stranger", "The
Carthorses and the Saddlehorse", "The
Tadpole and the Frog", "Something in It", "Faith...
