carriage horse

a horse trained and groomed to draw carriages.

Origin of carriage horse

First recorded in 1590–1600

There was a carriage-horse to be sold, and Dicky spoke out and told this and that, and young master couldn't get his price.

A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) |Frances Eleanor Trollope
The other carriage-horse was turned out to grass; being too old for regular work.

Wives and Daughters |Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Lots of bishops do it now, he told me; it is the same as putting a carriage-horse out to grass: there is no work, but less corn.

Dodo's Daughter |E. F. Benson
A carriage-horse champed its bit, and the still watchers turned at once to that intrusive sound.

Old Junk |H. M. Tomlinson

Two hornets will kill a man, and three a carriage-horse sixteen hands high.

The Caxtons, Complete |Edward Bulwer-Lytton