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Definition of Shire horse
1. Noun. British breed of large heavy draft horse.
Definition of Shire horse
1. Noun. The tallest breed of draught horse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shire Horse
Literary usage of Shire horse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The shire horse owes its happily-chosen name to Arthur Young's remarks, in'the
description of his agricultural tours during the closing years of the i8th ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"Six years later it changed its name to the shire horse Society. ... The American
shire horse Association, with headquarters at Wenona, 111., was established ..."
3. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1920)
"Bakewell was the earliest important improver of the English shire horse. He went
to Holland and imported mares, using them in systematic crossing with 1 Sir ..."
4. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1906)
"CHAPTER XVIII THE SHIRE The very early history of the shire horse traces back
... The special region of shire horse breeding in England has been in the east ..."
5. Palmer's Index to the Times NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1898)
"Annual Meeting, 1 j 8 e •Agrarian Socialism in Hungary, 14 / 6 e Agricultural Hall.
Islington. shire horse Show ; 4t, 22 / 14 а—23 / 8 5—24 J 8 5—3 m« а—» ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"... it may be said a study of the skeleton of a shire horse confirms the conclusion
arrived at by a study of the callosities and other external structures, ..."
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