yardhorse

Etymology

From yard + horse. The name is figurative, calling a tractor a horse (compare iron horse for locomotive); the name as a solid compound seems not to be attested in an earlier sense referring to a draft horse working in a yard such as a barnyard, lumberyard, or coalyard, although as an open compound or sum of parts, yard horse would be unsurprising there.

yardhorse means A heavy-duty tractor designed for moving shipping containers on chassis around a shipping terminal. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 92 out of 100.

noun

A heavy-duty tractor designed for moving shipping containers on chassis around a shipping terminal.“Plaintiffs contended that on the night of the subject accident the decedent unhooked the yardhorse from a trailer and had parked it 10 feet in front of the trailer to drop a nosepin on the trailer; that after the decedent left the yardgoat- and while he was attempting to lower the nosepin, the yardgoat, which apparently had been in neutral, silently engaged into reverse, moved back and crushed the”