An animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work.
1The human is the only beast of burden in the Bontoc area.
2It had become an impossible beast of burden on a backpacking holiday.
3The most common beast of burden, however, is the carabao, or water-buffalo.
4The river was our beast of burden now, a tireless, gentle beast.
5Why sufficeth not the beast of burden, which renounceth and is reverent?
6Cellini's words may mean, 'caused a beast of burden to pass by.'
7I'll act beast of burden provided it's hens I'm to carry-notrats!
8The beast of burden is either the donkey or the pony.
9She no longer wants to be the beast of burden of the house.
10She saw the man under the silent, sad-eyed beast of burden.
11The convict must be reduced to a simple beast of burden.
12Get tangled with that beast of burden for the rest of me days?
13Every beast of burden that could be dispensed with was slain.
14They treated me as a beast of burden, I assure you.
15She would be his beast of burden, an obedient, indefatigable animal.
16As a beast of burden, Ursus preferred Homo to a donkey.
Translations for beast of burden