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horse-drawing

• n. a contest in which teams of horses draw increasingly heavy weights on a stoneboat over a ten-foot space until all but the winner are eliminated, the initial weight being 1,000 pounds, additional weights of 500 pounds being added in successive heats.

  See also: horse-hauling contest  stoneboat  

  • Such contests are said to have originated among logging teamsters in the bush.

  • 1961  I don't know a sport that is more disgusting than horse-drawing.
  • 1965  Two Canadian records were set yesterday by a . . . man who drove his horses to win all three divisions in the horse-drawing competition at the Kingston Fall Fair.