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single-horse, a.
[f. single a. 18.]
1. Of vehicles: Made to be drawn by a single horse; one-horse.
1764Ann. Reg., Chron. 96/1 He regularly attended unkennelling the fox in his single-horse chair. 1780New Newgate Cal. V. 105 They stopped a single-horse chaise, in which were a Mrs. Constable..and her servant-maid. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 35 They are..thought inferior to the single-horse cart. 1851Official Catal. Gt. Exhib. 366 Light single-horse cart, for farming purposes. 1860W. G. Clark Vac. Tour 49 We engaged a large-wheeled single-horse vehicle.
2. Used with or for one horse.
1798R. Douglas Agric. Surv. Roxb. 50 A smaller hook coming from the middle of two lesser stretchers, or single-horse trees. |