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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



... were millionaires. You must go down this minute. You're losing money every second you sit there." She goaded the huge fellow to his feet again, thrust his hat into his hands, and pushed him out of the door, he obeying the while, docile and obedient as a big cart horse. He was on the stairs when she ...
— McTeague • Frank Norris
... won on my Frenchy, your excellency," said Lavrushka from behind, alluding to his shabby cart horse, "only I ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy


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