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coach horse

noun as in post horse

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Example Sentences

They have been whipped by them, as no sober postillion would whip a hackney coach horse.

But the Devil's Coach-horse makes it serve a double purpose.

The scientific name of the dardaol is "ocypus olens," in English he is sometimes called the "devil's coach-horse."

I was a General, under those trees, a General with a plume like a mourning coach-horse, and armed to the teeth.

A Hackney-coach Horse declared himself in favor of the sliding-scale, which he understood to mean the wooden pavement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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