NOUN
- an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work
How To Use beast of burden In A Sentence
- But instead of coming on a mighty war horse or a proud stallion, he rides a lowly beast of burden. Christianity Today
- -- E.] [Footnote 77: In modern language the term dromedary is very improperly applied to the Bactrian, or two-hunched camel, a slow beast of burden. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
- Will development ever again be the beast of burden pulling the region out of economic malady?
- Camels are an animal, what we call a beast of burden, from the standpoint this is a young camel, obviously. CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008
- The donkey is the beast of burden, and windmills, originally used for grinding maize, abound.
- Temperamentally the gelding is a patient, plodding, beast of burden, and though under good grooming he may show considerable life, while under the control of his driver, he seldom shows any interest in other members of the horse family, either male or female, and in the pasture or on the ranch his neutral sex temperament is ever apparent. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male
- A wolf killed and ate his beast of burden.
- A wolf killed and ate his beast of burden.
- He looked a bit like a beast of burden that someone was going to report to the RSPCA. SOMEBODY
- They have horses and ponies, but the yak is the beast of burden, and he supplies them with his long shaggy coat with plenty of wool (which they export and from which they make their clothes), and also supplies them with milk. The Assault on Everest