dray horse

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   horse adapted for drawing heavy loads

   Synonymsdraft horsedraught horse

   Broaderworkhorse

   NarrowercarthorseClydesdalePercheronshirepole horsewheel horsecoach horse

Questions about dray horse

What does dray horse mean?

dray horse means "horse adapted for drawing heavy loads".

What is another word for dray horse?

Close synonyms include draft horse, draught horse. 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 dray horse a common word?

dray 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.