carthorse , also: cart horse

A large carthorse stood drowsily eating something in the grass.

The carthorse picked up speed without a guiding hand on the reins.

The carthorse would get used to him eventually.

Just a white carthorse pulling a load of hay.

By the time they reached the fork, the poor carthorse collapsed in harness, never to rise again.

The sturdy and stubborn carthorse has become a pantomime horse.

She's as fat as a carthorse and has bad breath."

He simply kept them clear of the traces, as the old carthorse was content to follow the rutted path without guidance.

The hopeless carthorse Evans backed in error crosses the line first and he makes a huge financial profit.

Into the room lacking most of one wall he put the carthorse and his own mount, a bald-faced bay gelding.

He seemed as broad across the back as a carthorse, and his colour was a dark bluish-grey in the bad light.

She needed a carthorse, not a palfrey.

While on this subject, I may as well quote another of these prize questions: What is the difference between a warhorse and a carthorse?

A narrowboat was being towed by a weary carthorse.

The carthorse broke into a shambling run.

Even so, he was not valued by his new French owner, and it is believed he was used as a carthorse.

For a long moment, Armstrong didn't answer, too busy dodging past a protesting carthorse and its cursing driver.

There was a concussion, and the black horse came staggering sideways, and the carthorse pushed beside it.

The placid carthorse tossed its head and squealed a complaint its driver echoed.

He is another dog enthusiast owning a dog described as "a cross between a boxer and a carthorse".

I stooped and checked his pulse again-strong and steady as a carthorse.

He snorted deafeningly, like a scornful carthorse.

The horse, startled, was coming straight towards the brothers, a mountain of meat and muscle, a giant as large as a carthorse.

In his time the house still had a farm with cows, pigs, chickens, ducks and horses including a grey carthorse called Dobbin.

Someone mercifully shot Sid's mortally wounded carthorse, ending the agonizing, bone-grating screams.