coach horse
noun
a horse, usually strong and heavily built, for drawing a coach.
Origin of coach horse
1First recorded in 1580–90
Words Nearby coach horse
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How to use coach horse in a sentence
They have been whipped by them, as no sober postillion would whip a hackney coach horse.
But the Devil's Coach-horse makes it serve a double purpose.
The scientific name of the dardaol is "ocypus olens," in English he is sometimes called the "devil's coach-horse."
Legends of Saints & Sinners | Douglas HydeI was a General, under those trees, a General with a plume like a mourning coach-horse, and armed to the teeth.
Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete | Gustave DrozA Hackney-coach horse declared himself in favor of the sliding-scale, which he understood to mean the wooden pavement.
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