A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks.
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The mule is the only draft animal that always pulls straight and gets there right side up.
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But through the long winter the dog is practically the only draft animal that can be utilised by the inhabitants of those regions.
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He auctioned off all his bags of seed and his draft animals.
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Two men were hitched to a sled like draft animals.
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They stuck in the mud, with draft animals and all.
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Though his dignity was sorely hurt by thus being made a draught animal, he was too wise to rebel.
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And the girl, Taya, was pushing him along like some sort of draught animal and constantly shooting quick looks behind.
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It is only amongst a nomadic people, whose main quest is pasturage, that the reindeer is a satisfactory draught animal.
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Two mounted Mongols lay the bar across their knees in the saddle, but no draught animal is put between the shafts.
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I am constrained to believe that the Esquimau dog will do more work, and with less food, than any other draught animal existing.
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Slater had long since become a dumb draught animal, senseless to discomfort except in the hour of relaxation when he monotonously catalogued his ills.
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His draught animals appear to have comprised merely five or six mules.
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As draught animals Shackleton had both ponies and dogs, but chiefly ponies.
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About the same time the strength of their draught animals began to fail.
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Oxen were the draught animals, patient enough, but certainly not nimble.
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He was surprised, too, to learn that cows could be made draught animals.
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There are no horses or draught animals in Mombasa; the fly is too deadly.
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The males are used as draught animals, as they are stronger than the females.
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Your coin has purchased wagons, draught animals, and the necessary escort across the Bareth Solitude.
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We had two acres and we survived on that, with no machinery or draught animals.
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But there were no wheeled vehicles nor draught animals.