cart horse

English

Noun

cart horse (plural cart horses)

  1. 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.

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