Usually means: Animal laboring to carry loads.
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  1. beast of burden: Merriam-Webster
  2. beast of burden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beast of burden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beast of burden: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beast of burden: Vocabulary.com
  6. beast of burden: Wordnik
  7. beast of burden: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. beast of burden: Wiktionary
  9. beast of burden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. beast of burden: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Beast of burden, beast of burden: Dictionary.com
  12. Beast of Burden (disambiguation), Beast of Burden (film), Beast of Burden (song), Beast of Burden, Beast of burden: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. beast of burden: Rhymezone
  14. beast of burden: FreeDictionary.org
  15. beast of burden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. beast of burden: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. beast of burden: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. beast of burden: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beast of burden: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See beast_of_burdens as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (beast of burden)

noun:  A draft animal, a pack animal such as a donkey, mule, llama, camel, horse, or ox, that carries or pulls a load for the benefit of a human.
noun:  (by extension) Any domesticated animal trained to perform tasks for humans, such as a herding dog or trained falcon.

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