What is "draft horses"

Usage examples of "draft horses".

In leapfrogging three hundred years of gradual improvements to farm machinery they will quickly create demand for the heavy draft horses.

Where the draft horses are smaller than 1,500 lbs, three horses may be needed to accomplish the same amount of work.

The use of smaller draft horses would require an increase in the number of horses per team.

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With his heart aching softly, Bram cracked the whip and set the four massive draft horses in motion, bringing down the building that the Dog Lord had raised thirty-five years ago from the rubble of the lost Dhoonestone.

Her carriage led the way, Alexander rode a mare, and six wagons drawn by draft horses carried her trunks, cargo from the Rydal rail depot, and those precious cases of dynamite.

Rotterdam was settled as an agricultural world, complete with draft horses.

There was no way to reckon how many tons of supplies and powder had been surreptitiously cast by the way by wagoners trying to lighten their loads, or how many draft horses and mules had been killed or crippled in heaving to drag mired wagons and gun carriages out of the slimy, sucking mud.

The burning building housed the stable that held the heavy draft horses he'd gathered to move the bomb in case of need.

Thoughts of black steel and carts that move without draft horses and boats that move without wind swirl through his thoughts until darkness claims him.

A matched team of Rumoag draft horses pulls an empty flatbed wagon from the hauling yard.