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ˈhorse-car U.S.
1. A tramcar (or railway-car) drawn by a horse or horses. Also attrib.
1864Webster, Horse-car, a railroad car drawn by horses. 1883Century Mag. June 240/1 Everything she had in her portemonnaie except some horse-car tickets. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. iii. lxx. 556 The horse-cars can scarcely penetrate the throng. Ibid. lxxv. 621 note, The right of laying a horse-car line in Broadway.
2. A railway-car for the transport of horses. (Cent. Dict.) |