Meanings
plural cart horses
- alternativeAlternative form of carthorse.
Railway staff at Paddington recently raised £20 in three hours to help provide a home for the last railway cart horse to remain in service there, a mare named Mary. She is to be sent to a farm at Bedford, and every effort is to be made to find a home for her.
1954 October, “Last Horse at Paddington”, in Railway Magazine, page 689
Synonyms & antonyms
noundraft horse kept for pulling carts
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Dutch trekpaard
- trekpaardTranslations
Cite this entry
cart horse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cart%20horse
“cart horse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cart%20horse. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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