cart-horsen.

Forms: see cart n. and horse n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cart n., horse n.

Etymology: < cart n. + horse n.In quot. a1398 translating post-classical Latin bigalis, apparently ‘(of a horse) drawing a two-wheeled chariot’, apparently not attested elsewhere but probably < classical Latin bīga pair of horses (see biga n.) + -ālis -al suffix¹. Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcart-ˌhorse.

A horse used to draw a cart. (On the use in quot. a1398 see etymological note. In later use: a large thick-set horse used for heavy work.)

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xli. 1190 Charyot hors were y-ordeignede and yhalwed to the sonne... And cart hors were yhalwed to þe moone.

1483 Cath. Angl. 55 A carte hors; veredus, caballus.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings iv. 26 Salomon had fortye thousande cart horses, and twolue thousande horsmen.

1623 J. Taylor World runnes on Wheeles in Wks. (1630) ii. 235/2 Scarse any Coachhorse in the world doth know any letter in the Booke, when as euery Carthorse doth know the letter G very vnderstandingly.

1813 T. B. Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1880) I. 48 I will work like a cart-horse.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

单词	cart-horse
释义	cart-horsen. Forms: see cart n. and horse n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cart n., horse n. Etymology: < cart n. + horse n.In quot. a1398 translating post-classical Latin bigalis, apparently ‘(of a horse) drawing a two-wheeled chariot’, apparently not attested elsewhere but probably < classical Latin bīga pair of horses (see biga n.) + -ālis -al suffix¹. Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcart-ˌhorse. A horse used to draw a cart. (On the use in quot. a1398 see etymological note. In later use: a large thick-set horse used for heavy work.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > cart-horse cart-horsea1398 aver?a1513 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xli. 1190 Charyot hors were y-ordeignede and yhalwed to the sonne... And cart hors were yhalwed to þe moone. 1483 Cath. Angl. 55 A carte hors; veredus, caballus. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings iv. 26 Salomon had fortye thousande cart horses, and twolue thousande horsmen. 1623 J. Taylor World runnes on Wheeles in Wks. (1630) ii. 235/2 Scarse any Coachhorse in the world doth know any letter in the Booke, when as euery Carthorse doth know the letter G very vnderstandingly. 1813 T. B. Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1880) I. 48 I will work like a cart-horse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2020). > as lemmas cart-horse cart-horse n. extracted from cartn. < n.a1398 as lemmas
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cart-horsen.

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