cart horse
English
Noun
cart horse (plural cart horses)
- Alternative form of carthorse.
- 1954 October, “Last Horse at Paddington”, in Railway Magazine, page 689:
- Railway staff at Paddington recently raised £20 in three hours to help provide a home for the last railway cart horse to remain in service there, a mare named Mary. She is to be sent to a farm at Bedford, and every effort is to be made to find a home for her.
References
- “cart horse”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “cart horse”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.