wheel horse

or wheel-horse

noun

Also called wheeler. a horse, or one of the horses, harnessed behind others and nearest the front wheels of a vehicle.
Chiefly South Atlantic States. the left-hand horse of a pair hitched to a wagon or plow.
Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a reliable, diligent, and strong worker.

wheel horse

First recorded in 1700–10

Garrett one day, "every church has to have a wheel-horse, and I might as well be the wheel-horse as any body."

Probably nothing in the world could have more amazed his than to find Roscoe—the steady old wheel-horse—in this condition.

He was instantly met and borne to the snow by Bones, the second “wheel-horse.”

Mind and body need to be driven tandem, the body for the wheel horse and the intellect the leader.

The four-wheel horse cabs seem very slow to us now, but they carried more luggage than the taxi-cabs can.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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