| 单词 | drayhorse |
| 释义 | > see alsoalso refers to : dray-horsen. > as lemmasdray-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. < see also as lemmas |
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