单词 | pair-horsed |
释义 | pair-horsedadj. British. Now rare. Drawn by a pair of horses. ΘΚΠ 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 1896 Scottish Rev. 28 14 The visitor is driven to hire a pair-horsed carriage if he wants to transport himself and his baggage to those parts. 1905 Daily Chron. 22 May 6/3 The costly motor-cars of the humble workmen and the pair-horsed carriages of the lordly labourers. 1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger i. iii. 19 A couple of pair-horsed trams. 1949 Times 19 Apr. 2/1 An Ealing furniture van—one of the ‘pair-horsed vehicles’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1896 |
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