wheel horse

1. 1.

   a draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle

   Synonymswheeler

   Broaderdraft horse

Questions about wheel horse

What does wheel horse mean?

wheel horse means "a draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle".

What is another word for wheel horse?

Close synonyms include wheeler. 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 wheel horse a common word?

wheel 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.