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1. A tramcar (or railway-car) drawn by a horse or horses. Also attributive.
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1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Horse-car, a railroad car drawn by horses.
1883 Cent. Mag. June 240/1 Everything she had in her portemonnaie except some horse-car tickets.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxx. 556 The horse-cars can scarcely penetrate the throng.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxxv. 621 The..right of laying a horse-car line in Broadway.
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2. A railway-car for the transport of horses. ( Cent. Dict.)
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