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coach horse

noun

  1. a horse, usually strong and heavily built, for drawing a coach.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coach horse1

First recorded in 1580–90

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Example Sentences

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."

I was a General, under those trees, a General with a plume like a mourning coach-horse, and armed to the teeth.

A Hackney-coach Horse declared himself in favor of the sliding-scale, which he understood to mean the wooden pavement.

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