dray-horsen.

Etymology: < dray n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdray-horse.

A large and powerful horse used for drawing a dray. So dray-horse vb. (rare).

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls wagon

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dray-horse1709

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1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 60. ⁋10 A Discourse on the Nature of the Elephant, the Cow, the Dray-Horse.

1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 26 She is condemn'd to do more Drudgery than a Dray-horse.

1820 B. Silliman Jrnl. Trav. (ed. 2) III. 86 When we speak of a London dray-horse, we must understand an animal which in size resembles an elephant rather than a horse.

1857 R. B. Paul Lett. from Canterbury i. 19 One of Mr. Russell's men then mounted a dray-horse.

1896 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (1917) II. 637 You have been dray-horsing over the same tiresome ground for a year.

1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 4 She lifts Tobin's hand, which is own brother to the hoof of a dray horse.

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xix. 298 Damn ye, the dray horse wouldn't go in the shafts of that cart.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	dray-horse
释义	dray-horsen. Etymology: < dray n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdray-horse. A large and powerful horse used for drawing a dray. So dray-horse vb. (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls wagon wagon-horse1585 dray-horse1709 swing1869 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 60. ⁋10 A Discourse on the Nature of the Elephant, the Cow, the Dray-Horse. 1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris i. 26 She is condemn'd to do more Drudgery than a Dray-horse. 1820 B. Silliman Jrnl. Trav. (ed. 2) III. 86 When we speak of a London dray-horse, we must understand an animal which in size resembles an elephant rather than a horse. 1857 R. B. Paul Lett. from Canterbury i. 19 One of Mr. Russell's men then mounted a dray-horse. 1896 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (1917) II. 637 You have been dray-horsing over the same tiresome ground for a year. 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 4 She lifts Tobin's hand, which is own brother to the hoof of a dray horse. 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xix. 298 Damn ye, the dray horse wouldn't go in the shafts of that cart. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1709
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