draught animal

English

Alternative forms

• draft animal

Pronunciation

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Noun

draught animal (plural draught animals)

1. A strong working animal used to draw a load like a cart, a plough etc., as opposed to a mount.

Hyponyms

• draught horse

Translations

animal used to pull heavy objects

• Afrikaans: trekdier
• Catalan: animal de càrrega
• Dutch: trekdier (nl) n
• Finnish: vetojuhta (fi)
• French: animal de trait (fr) m, bête de trait (fr) f, bête de somme (fr) f
• Galician: animal de carga
• German: Zugtier (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὑποζύγιον n (hupozúgion)

• Icelandic: dráttardýr (is) n
• Italian: bestia da tiro f, animale da tiro m
• Latin: iumentum (la) n (pulling carts); armentum n (pulling ploughs)
• Ottoman Turkish: حیوان (hayvan)
• Polish: zwierzę pociągowe n
• Russian: тягловое животное n (tjaglovoje životnoje)
• Spanish: animal de carga
• Swedish: dragdjur (sv) n, dragare (sv) c, ök (sv) n

See also

• beast of burden