beast of burden

Speech parts

1. beast of burden - Noun

2. beast of burden - Phrase

Meaning

an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

jument colt roan beaver roadster husky heifer grindstone drudge cow elephant beast mule burro courser
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Antonyms

loafer crawler idler inactive drone sluggish
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Hypernyms

work animal

Hyponyms

horse sumpter pack animal

Examples

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. Martin Luther

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. Jean-Francois de La Harpe

A donkey is a very useful beast of burden. Lawrence Wright

By the Gold Rush years of the 19th century, the burro was the beast of burden of choice of early prospectors in the western United States. Source: Internet

Robert Louis Stevenson in Travels with a Donkey (1879), portrays the animal as a stubborn beast of burden. Source: Internet

I'm trying to express the inner nature and symbolism of the character or, in this case, this beast of burden. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

beast of burden

Close letter words and terms

Beast from the East beast mode beast of a job beast of draft beast of draught beast of prey