drayhorse , auch: dray horse

That's why we selected him to be our drayhorse, remember?"

Or expect a drayhorse to run a race?"

All types and sizes of French trucks were there, from semis with long trailers and Citroen repair vans to the ubiquitous Renault 4, the drayhorse of French plumbers and tradespeople.

Jones enlists as a private in the First World War so that "public death [ can ] have another go at him, otherwise he might be kicked to little private death by a drayhorse or choke on a mackerel bone."

He eased up on patronage as a political tool and focused instead on helping his constituents in matters small and large, often invoking the image of himself as a "drayhorse" - a hard-working, persistent advocate for the things and people he believed in.

Sometimes the watchful eyes of the Soviet Deputy Prime Minister, Vladimir I. Shcherbakov, betray an odd merriment at his task of leading the nation from the morass of central economic planning, as if he were searching for some capitalist unicorn to replace the wheezing drayhorse of Communism.