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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



... and fro while he is speaking.] I don't think evil of women.—Not a bit!—I think evil only of marrying ... of marriage ... of marriage and—at most, of men ... The woman question, you think, has ceased to interest me? What do you suppose I've worked here for, during six years, like a cart horse? Surely in order to devote at last all the power that is in me to the solution of that question. Didn't you ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann
... said, stroking the animal's mane, "you're not to be a menial cart horse tonight. I am an Arabian genie and I hereby turn you into a light, smooth, beautifully built automobile for one passenger ...
— The Forest of Swords - A Story of Paris and the Marne • Joseph A. Altsheler
... a cart horse worth three of him," said the country fellow. "If this pony were mine, the first thing I should do would be ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester


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