workhorse – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
workhorse
n.
horse used for labor; person who works very hard; very useful or dependable machine or vehicle
Draft horse
A
draft horse (US),
draught horse (UK and Commonwealth) or
dray horse (from the
Old English dragan meaning "to draw or haul"; compare
Dutch dragen and
German tragen meaning "to carry"), less often called a
carthorse,
work horse or
heavy horse, is a large
horse bred to be a
working animal doing hard tasks such as
plowing and other
farm labor. There are a
number of breeds, with varying characteristics, but all share common traits of strength, patience, and a docile temperament which made them indispensable to generations of
pre-industrial farmers.
workhorse
Noun
1. machine that performs dependably under heavy use; "the IBM main frame computers have been the workhorse of the business world"
(hypernym) machine
2. a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor
(hypernym) horse, Equus caballus
(hyponym) plow horse, plough horse
workhorse
Synonyms and related words:
beast of burden, bidet, buck, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, drudge, fag, fill horse, filler, galley slave, gigster, greasy grind, grind, grub, hack, hackney, horse, hunter, jument, lead, leader, mount, pack horse, palfrey, peon, plodder, plow horse, pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, remount, rider, riding horse, road horse, roadster, rouncy, saddle horse, saddler, sawbuck, shaft horse, slave, slavey, slogger, stalking-horse, sumpter, sumpter horse, swot, thill horse, thiller, toiler, trestle, wheeler, wheelhorse
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
WORKHORSE
CAVALLO DA LAVORO. GRAN LAVORATORE. MULO
