plow horse

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   a horse used to pull a plow

   Synonymsplough horse

   Broaderworkhorse

Questions about plow horse

What does plow horse mean?

plow horse means "a horse used to pull a plow".

What is another word for plow horse?

Close synonyms include plough 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 plow horse a common word?

plow 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.