plough horse BrE
plow horse AmE

It was like trying to push a fully harnessed plough horse.

A lot of them have a work ethic that would break a plough horse.'

It was one of the plough horses favoured by the colonists.

"And there may be only bumpkins on plough horses to ride against.

It is these "ploughing horses" for which Eckenfelder is best known.

"Would plough horses be big enough?"

Shortly after I see the farmer coming in on a huge plough horse, the sort I've heard called Percherons.

In his late work, the motif of "ploughing horses with Balingen landscape background" emerges.

The core motifs in this period are ploughing horses, portraits after photographs, riding home, and townscapes.

To see that plough horses and cart horses are well treated and well fed.

He's a plunger... I'm a plough horse.'

Horace first appeared as Mickey's plough horse in the cartoon "The Plow Boy" in 1929.

Eckenfelder's ploughing horses become more monumental and infused with pathos, but by means of the use of light they remain a part of the landscape.

'There's old Poorchick's plough horse-' Shawn began.

Any creature in peril of death or harm, be it man, woman, plough horse, or Saint Melangell's hare, could draw him through moss or quicksand.

The name refers to the cornkist, (corn chest), used to measure oats sufficient to feed a plough horse on the farms of North-east Scotland at that time.

So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse, or a plough horse, or even a dressage horse.

Ahead, out in the white, the line of legionaries moved forward as if drawn by plough horses, slowly but without a break, each man safe behind his shield, each stabbing in the small space between.

The driver swore at the horses and lashed down with the whip, and the old gun horse shoved at the plough horse and the cart pitched again like a storm-tossed boat.

It was no more graceful than its rider, but a shaggy plough horse, and its mighty hoofs, beating like great hammers, tore up clods of turf and flung them far behind it.

Like Frank Sutcliffe at Whitby, Louisa lovingly recorded the vanishing way of life the ploughing horses, craftsmen in their dusty workshops, villagers trailing home behind the laden hay wagon, rakes on their shoulders.

Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria purchased his painting Pferde vor dem Pflug (Ploughing Horses) in 1888 and Eckenfelder was for the first time mentioned in the specialist press.

The cart lurched from side to side, for one of the horses was a big plough horse while the other, much smaller had been an offside leader on a French gun team and Sharpe had deliberately harnessed it on the wrong side.

After lunch he comes, dressed all in black, with a black briefcase, the half-collar of the Christian Brother on the throat instead of the priest's full collar, a big white-haired man, who seemed made more to follow ploughing horses than to stand in classrooms.

There was no word for "plough horse," and no evidence that horses were used for ploughing in Anglo-Saxon times, when this was still done by ox teams; but Domesday Book records a horse used for harrowing, in 1086.

The woman pulled at the leads, and the plow horse slowed.

For fifty years she'd lived with the shoulders of a plow horse.

A plow horse kicked him and broke his leg last year.

Within stood one of the estate's huge plow horses.

Periods of high growth meant higher food demands, and more demand for plow horses.

In years past, Jerome had handled many recalcitrant plow horses.

We must have looked like two resting angels-and a fallen plow horse.

That would have saved three days of traipsing all over the valley on a plow horse!

The next summer one of his plow horses broke its leg in a prairie- dog hole and had to be shot.

Only two milk cows and a pair of plow horses stabled.

He would saddle their huskiest plow horse, ride into town, and shop for everybody.

Plow horse menu items sell well, but don't significantly increase revenue.

See him bullied by a big plow horse.

Like a racing thoroughbred standing beside a plow horse.

Ben left them with the plow horses and forged ahead into the tangled undergrowth.

He felt as weak and used up as a hundred-year-old plow horse.

The stallion was no plow horse, that was plain at a glance.

Man would look ridiculous on a plow horse."

He led them to a stable that housed a cow and two Percheron plow horses.

The only horse he rode was a plow horse.

We've basically added a thoroughbred to our plow horses."

At 13, he became exasperated by the stubbornness of a plow horse named Big Bill.

The plow horse, it turned out, had Secretariat's bloodlines.

In embroidery, she is represented as a woman with uplifted hands and flanked by two plow horses.

Mary was a plow horse, and she was a big, powerful brute, but gentle as could be.