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Cart horse   /kɑrt hɔrs/   Listen
noun
Cart  n.  
1.
A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. "Phoebus' cart."
2.
A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. "Packing all his goods in one poor cart."
3.
A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.
4.
An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
Cart horse, a horse which draws a cart; a horse bred or used for drawing heavy loads; also spelled carthorse.
Cart rope, a stout rope for fastening a load on a cart; any strong rope.
To put the cart before the horse, To get the cart before the horse, or To set the cart before the horse, to invert the order of related facts or ideas, as by putting an effect for a cause; to do things in an improper order.


cart horse, carthorse  n.  A horse kept for pulling carts; a horse bred or used for drawing heavy loads.
Synonyms: drayhorse.





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"Cart horse" Quotes from Famous Books



... a cart horse worth three of him," said the country fellow. "If this pony were mine, the first thing I should do would be to ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester
... twenty-four hours after he left Paris, half-dazed with fatigue, but ferocious and eager still, he is borne to the gates of Boulogne by an old cart horse requisitioned from some distant farm, and which falls down, dead, at the Porte Gayole, whilst its rider, with a last effort, loudly clamours for admittance into the town "in ...
— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... crosses. Now and then some one tries it, only to turn back, and an overturned cart and a drowned horse show the danger. But we decide to risk it, hiring two Mongols, a lama and a "black man," to guide our horses. One, on his own mount, takes the big cart horse by the head; the other, riding my pony, leads the buggy horse. Wang comes in with me and holds Jack. The crowds watch eagerly as we start out; the water splashes our feet. First one horse, then another, floundering badly, almost goes down, the ...
— A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia • Elizabeth Kendall
... on my Frenchy, your excellency," said Lavrushka from behind, alluding to his shabby cart horse, "only I didn't wish ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy


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