Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A horse of any of various breeds having a heavy build and a calm temperament, such as a draft horse.
  • adjective Relating to or having the characteristics of a coldblood.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Translation of German Kaltblut : kalt, cold + Blut, blood.]

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Examples

  • Admin coldblood told The Register, “This is very much like the Scientology thing started more than a year ago now.”

    Big 4 IFPI under online attack 2009

  • Admin coldblood told The Register, “This is very much like the Scientology thing started more than a year ago now.”

    Big 4 IFPI under online attack 2009

  • The dark brindle rangy one is my old Riley, a cross of coldblood greyhound and Scottish deerhound.

    Dog Origins 2006

  • Admin coldblood told The Register, "This is very much like the Scientology thing started more than a year ago now."

    p2pnet news 2009

  • Again we have a completely-naked coldblood that can’t allow himself to be seen by humans.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » TV Tropes Presents: Big Applesauce! 2008

  • Any dog’s quantity of it visibly oozed out thickly from this dirty little blacking beetle for the very fourth snap the Tulloch – Turn-bull girl with her coldblood kodak shotted the as yet unre — muneranded national apostate, who was cowardly gun and camera shy, taking what he fondly thought was a short cut to Caer Fere,

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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