Anna Karenina vocabulary

20 horse related terms (carriages, anatomy, breeds, tack)

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20 [equestrian] words
top boots
shaft-horse
piebald
unyoke
dogcart
withers
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shaft-horse

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the horse attached between the shafts (a.k.a. thills) of a troika. The center troika horse.

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Two of the troykas were the usual household sleighs, the third was the old count’s with a trotter from the Orlov stud as shaft horse, the fourth was Nicholas’ own with a short shaggy black shaft horse.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 07 (Book Seven) . Simon & Schuster
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