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A horse used primarily for manual labor
“When the baker's horse, Pickles, stopped outside my father's shop, I closed my eyes and my leg started aching. That's how I knew the old workhorse's leg was hurting too.”
A person who toils or works very hard
“He was a workhorse. Fed off the drive, the goal, the raw, unfettered grinding toward what he wanted.”
A person who works very hard for very little remuneration
“But his anguish was also tempered by long-simmering resentment over his subordinate role as Pearson's underpaid workhorse.”
A keen and enthusiastic person who works very hard
An individual who provides labor to a company or another person
A person who works hard for a cause
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