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单词 single-horse
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single-horseadj.

Etymology: < single adj. Compounds 3.
1. Of vehicles: Made to be drawn by a single horse; one-horse.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [adjective] > drawn singularly
single-horse1764
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [adjective] > drawn by horse > by specific number or arrangement of
four-horseda1382
one-horse1734
four-horse1762
single-horse1764
two-horse1798
pair-horse1829
pair-horsed1896
1764 Ann. Reg., Chron. 96/1 He regularly attended unkennelling the fox in his single-horse chair.
1780 New Newgate Cal. V. 105 They stopped a single-horse chaise, in which were a Mrs. Constable..and her servant-maid.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 35 They are..thought inferior to the single-horse cart.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 366 Light single-horse cart, for farming purposes.
1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 49 We engaged a large-wheeled single-horse vehicle.
2. Used with or for one horse.
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1798 R. Douglas Gen. View Agric. Roxburgh & Selkirk 50 A smaller hook coming from the middle of two lesser stretchers, or single-horse trees.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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