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n. (shire horse English)
Usage examples of "shire horses".
The Shire horses who'd given me a hard time let her cadge free meals once in a while.
The heavy-shod hooves of the shire horses set the packed-earth road ringing.
Will saw the broad head, the long chestnut mane plastered wet to the neck, and he knew that this was either Castor or Pollux, one of the two great shire horses from Dawsons’.
Will saw the broad head, the long chestnut mane plastered wet to the neck, and he knew that this was either Castor or Pollux, one of the two great shire horses from Dawsons' Farm.
His grace made the journey in a horse litter slung between two huge shire horses, while his capacious coach trundled along behind, crowded with ten men and women he had had brought in from the Abbey of St.
Daff and Dixie and the other big Shire horses were calm in their stables, and Merlin and Minerva, our two surviving cats, were huddling up on one of the high ledges where the warmer air collected.
Their idea of advanced machinery was the plough which the shire horses pulled.
Monday would take the master list and a dray pulled by two huge shire horses, and he would set off for the nearest county town and return in a handful of days with the dray loaded high with goods of all description.
So we needed stalls for the shire horses, mostly in winter, and stalls for the fancy teams.
Monday would take the master list, and a dray pulled by two huge shire horses, and he would set off for the nearest county town, and return in a handful of days with the dray loaded high with goods of all description.