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carthorses

carthorses is the plural of carthorse.

Meaning of carthorse

Noun

carthorse (plural carthorses)

  1. A large, strong horse used for pulling heavy loads.
    • The blacksmith's forge shone bright on the opposite side of the way, and the proprietor had the hind-leg of a carthorse in his leather-coated lap.1840, Horace Smith, editor, Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, of the Late James Smith

Questions about carthorses

What is carthorses the plural of?
Carthorses is the plural of carthorse.

Words near carthorses in the dictionary

  1. carthamus red
  2. Carthen
  3. Carthens
  4. Carthew
  5. carthorse
  6. carthorses
  7. carthoun
  8. carthouns
  9. carthouse
  10. carthouses
  11. Carthusian

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