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farm horse

n. a quiet plodding workhorse [syn: dobbin]

Usage examples of "farm horse".

A farm horse, saddle-broke but more used for plough work, and well past mark of mouth.

Comically, Jamie bowed this way and that as he made his way to the witness-stand, spurs clattering, leather harness creaking like a superannuated farm horse.

With a few more of her dwindling supply of coins Eirran bought another horse, a gentle old gelding to pull the plow, for the Torgian was no farm horse.

Running over the grass, he had the laboured breath and heavy feet of a farm horse.

This meant that his horse had to be a slow and enormous weight-carrier, like the farm horse of today, and that his own movements were so hampered by his burden of iron and padding that they were toned down into slow motion as in motion pictures.