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beast of burden |
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a beast of burden (literary) a large animal, such as a donkey (= an animal like a small horse with long ears), which is used for pulling vehicles or carrying heavy loads. Huskies are traditionally used in the Arctic as beasts of burden. See also: beast |
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Why sufficeth not the beast of burden, which renounceth and is reverent? The strangest thing of all was that those twenty-four donkeys, instead of being iron-shod like any other beast of burden, had on their feet laced shoes made of leather, just like the ones boys wear. The elephant, which its owner had reared, not for a beast of burden, but for warlike purposes, was half domesticated. |
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