单词 | single-horse |
释义 | single-horseadj. 1. Of vehicles: Made to be drawn by a single horse; one-horse. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < adj.1764 |
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