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  • n  one of a breed of grey or black draft horses originally used in France to draw heavy coaches or artillery

  • On that pleasant heath graze, plow, cavort, eight zebroids, heavily boned and muscled as their percheron dams, fractious and dainty-footed as their wild zebra sire.
  • The story plods on, a pony with the manners of a percheron, while the son dies (of a cold caught at a ship's christening), while the shipbuilder's neglected daughter marries a .
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  • Trekking the Towpath: Back to nature with a bit of history
    As I start out on my hike from St. Helena Heritage Park in downtown Canal Fulton along the Towpath Trail, the first sound I hear is “Low bridge ahead,” as the steersman yells out while Prince and Dan — the two behemoth Percheron draft horses — tow the line that keeps the St. Helena III canal boat moving toward its destination at Lock IV park.
    June 10, 2013 - The Massillon Independent

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