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Farm horse   /fɑrm hɔrs/   Listen
Farm horse

noun
1.
A quiet plodding workhorse.  Synonym: dobbin.






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"Farm horse" Quotes from Famous Books



... back to our hero, galloping away on his old farm horse to find a country doctor, may seem a short step down from the sublime. And so, perhaps, it may be to those whose ideal of the sublime is only in outward and material things. But to those who look past these things to the passionate human heart, the same in every age, it will be evident that ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe

... place. I found that the side of the house I occupied overlooked a neglected garden, which was mostly used for drying clothes. I also discovered that the stables were right at the back of the house, and so it would be impossible for me to hear any noises in that quarter; at any rate there was only one farm horse left, and this was securely fastened up every night. Also there were no cobble-stones round the yard. I mentioned what I had heard to the people of the house, but as they would give me no satisfactory reply I passed it over. I did not hear ...
— True Irish Ghost Stories • St John D Seymour



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