shire horse

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   British breed of large heavy draft horse

   Synonymsshire

   Broaderdraft horse

Questions about shire horse

What does shire horse mean?

shire horse means "British breed of large heavy draft horse".

What is another word for shire horse?

Close synonyms include shire. 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 shire horse a common word?

shire 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.