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Heavy feathered-legged breed of draft horse originally from Scotland
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clydesdale
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Clydesdale was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005, when it was redistributed to Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale , Lanark and Hamilton East and East Kilbride, Strathaven ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clydesdale \Clydes"dale\, n. One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"breed of heavy draught horses," 1786, so called because they were bred in the valley of the Clyde in Scotland. The river name is perhaps literally "cleansing," from a Celtic root akin to Latin cloaca (see cloaca ).
Usage examples of clydesdale.
Paddy only had to back the Leyland Clydesdale a few feet to pick up the skip.
So she jammed the yoke forward to its stop, cycling the unloaded Clydesdales up with a yowl of protest, and when she thought she had every RPM they could deliver to the pumps, recoupled the wheels.
AFTER DAWN on a Saturday in early April a Leyland Clydesdale, carrying a low-sided skip with six men in it, pulled up in what had once been a cul-de-sac.
Then they enlarged the front door and window into an opening big enough to take the Leyland Clydesdale, which was backed through it into the interior of the house.
Leyland Clydesdale seemed to fill most of what was left of the tiny, house.
Rover and Wally drove them to the empty house that backed on to the house where the Leyland Clydesdale was parked.
Ashman shouted to Joseph and Eddie - and kept down himself as the big Leyland Clydesdale shot forward and smashed through the boarded-up front of the little house with a noise like a bomb.
Conchessa and her elder sister to Calphurnius, a Briton of Clydesdale, as slaves.
I went to Biggar, in Clydesdale, where I knew the schoolmaster was an approved classical scholar.
Harrower, formerly mentioned, having come into town from Clydesdale, took pleasure in finding out whatever could interest or gratify me, and of conveying me thither.
Suzdalian boy sitting astride a Clydesdale and looking down at him in the trench.
Yet there they were, together, the cow folded down and rhythmically chewing the cud while the Clydesdale dozed with one massive hind hoof propped on its tip.
Sir Simon Lockhart, after much experience of the wonders which it wrought, brought it to his own country, and left it to his heirs, by whom, and by Clydesdale in general, it was, and is still, distinguished by the name of the Lee-penny, from the name of his native seat of Lee.
More--all the gentry of Clydesdale are on the road, commanded by the Earl of Lanark, and him and his Hamiltons are waiting to soop up the remnants of that which Argyll will shatter.
She continued to breathe deeply, readying herself to go out and dispose of that Clydesdale of a bug, but when she attempted to go, she could not move.