cart horse

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   draft horse kept for pulling carts

   Synonymscarthorsedrayhorse

   Broaderdraft horse

Questions about cart horse

What does cart horse mean?

cart horse means "draft horse kept for pulling carts".

What is another word for cart horse?

Close synonyms include carthorse, drayhorse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cart horse a common word?

cart horse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.