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ˈhorse-ˌlitter
Forms: see litter.
1. A litter hung on poles, carried between two horses, one in front and the other behind.
1388Wyclif 2 Macc. iii. 27 Putte in a pakke sadil [gloss] ether hors litir. c1465Eng. Chron. (Camden 1856) 46 He was brought in a horsliter to Westmynstre. 1600Holland Livy xxvi. xxix. 650 Scarce able to endure the shogging and shaking of the horselitter, for pain and greefe of his wounds. 1775R. Twiss Trav. Port & Sp. 49 Chairs and horse-litters are used here in bad weather. 1851Dickens Child's Hist. Eng. xvi, The King, now weak and sick, followed in a horse-litter.
b. Sometimes on wheels, esp. as a funeral car.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Carro con andas, a horslitter, rheda. 1663Wood Life July (O.H.S.) I. 479 Then the wain or hors-litter on four wheeles.
2. A bed of straw or hay for horses to rest upon.
b. The manure consisting of such straw mixed with the excrements of horses.
1624Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. vii. 146 Olde monuments and books, made horse-litter, or burned like straw. 1721Bradley Coffee 33 A bed prepared with horse-litter. ― Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 20 It must be cover'd, the Top and Sides with Horse-litter to lie upon it undisturb'd. |