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Draught horse   /dræft hɔrs/   Listen
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Draught  adj.  
1.
Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
2.
Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
3.
Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
4.
Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; said of ale, cider, and the like. Note: This word, especially in the first and second meanings, is often written draft, a spelling which is approved by many authorities.
Draught box. See Draught tube, below.
Draught engine (Mining), an engine used for pumping, raising heavy weights, and the like.
Draught hook (Mil.), one of the hooks on a cannon carriage, used in drawing the gun backward and forward.
Draught horse, a horse employed in drawing loads, plowing, etc., as distinguished from a saddle horse or carriage horse.
Draught net, a seine or hauling net.
Draught ox, an ox employed in hauling loads, plowing, etc.
Draught tube (Water Wheels), an air-tight pipe extending downward into the tailrace from a turbine wheel located above it, to make the whole fall available; called also draught box.






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"Draught horse" Quotes from Famous Books



... see now the sleek-sided lorry horses in Hunt and Carton's yard, and I recall precisely the odour of the place as I passed through it that morning; the heavy, flat wads of blue-wrapped paper, and the fluttering bits of straw; the stamp of a draught horse's foot on cobble-stones. I saw the black, clean-cut shadow of the arched place. I turned half round to note the cause of a soft sound behind me. And just then came the dull roar of a detonation, in the same instant that a huge weight crashed upon me, and I fell down, down, down into the very ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... ordinances are all important. In my view they hold a relation to every true Christian in the lines of example, power and use somewhat like that which the harness has to a draught horse. The horse has to be first trained to the draught by means of the harness; and when trained he draws by the same means. Entering the church in the Lord's appointed way—inwardly, through repentance towards God and faith in our Lord ...
— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline

... character, a restlessness, which the small farmers who usually employ such men know and trade on; the gipsy who takes to farm work must not look for the same treatment as the big-framed, white-skinned man who is as strong, enduring, and unchangeable as a draught horse or ox, and constant as ...
— A Shepherd's Life • W. H. Hudson



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