farm horse

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   a quiet plodding workhorse

   Synonymsdobbin

   Broaderworkhorse

Questions about farm horse

What does farm horse mean?

farm horse means "a quiet plodding workhorse".

What is another word for farm horse?

Close synonyms include dobbin. 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 farm horse a common word?

farm 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.