CARABAO • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Carabao

... rolled on. It passed a cart drawn by two horses whose hempen harness told of the back country. Sometimes there sounded the slow and heavy tread of a pensive carabao, drawing a great tumbrel; its conductor, on his buffalo skin, accompanying, with a monotonous and melancholy chant, the strident creaking of the wheels. Sometimes there was the dull sound of a native sledge's worn runners. In the fields grazed the herds, and among them white ...

— An Eagle Flight - A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal