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n. (draught animal English)
Usage examples of "draught animals".
To Bazo cattle were a store of wealth, a source of meat and milk, they were not draught animals.
It was illogical to spare draught animals which might be invaluable to the French for fear of hitting wounded men who might recover and again be active enemies, but it was the convention of war, deriving its absurdity from war itself.
There had been time enough to work the draught animals and accustom them to each other, but formation work was still difficult.
Weeks earlier the remainder of Zayn's fleet had arrived from Lamu and had landed his horses, draught animals and the rest of his men on the other side of the peninsula.
Their cavalry had never been able to penetrate this deadly screen, nor had their draught animals been able to drag their war trains up from the coast.
Summer made water scarce in these hot lowlands and likely to be bad, and sharply cut into the fodder for draught animals.
They were also to bring their horses and other draught animals so that there might be an ample supply of vehicles for the men who fell out through fatigue.
That evening and the following day were consumed in decamping the battle train: cleaning and refitting weapons and armor, reshafting spears which had been shivered in combat and rewrighting the oaken hubs of the hoplon shields, disassembling and storing the riggings of the waggons, tending to the pack and draught animals, making sure each beast was properly watered and groomed and dispersed with their helot teamsters to their various kleroi, the farmsteads they worked.
The vast horde of civilians and animals was encircled by a thin crust of red-coated infantry, most of them Indian sepoys, whose job was to protect the merchants, ammunition and draught animals from the quick-riding, hard-hitting light cavalry of the Tippoo Sultan.