one-horse
adjective
Drawn by or using a single horse: a one-horse cart...
- In 1848 American Agriculturist praised new wagons light enough to be pulled by only two horses. By the 1860s one-horse wagons were available.
- Four hundredweight in a one-horse cart was low in comparison with the weights carried by scheduled carriers but it is a plausible average to use for traffic on the rural roads of Cheshire.
- A one-horse cart could carry much more than a packhorse but travelled more slowly.
Phrases
one-horse race
one-horse town
- as (or so) long as
- as (or so) the saying goes (or is)
- as (or when or where) the fancy takes one
- asp
- a spanner (or monkey wrench) in the works
- asparagine
- asparagus
- asparagus beetle
- asparagus fern
- asparagus pea
- a spare prick at a wedding
- aspartame
- aspartate
- aspartic acid
- ASPCA
- aspect
- aspect ratio
- aspectual
- aspen
- as per
- Asperger disorder
- Asperger's disorder
- Asperger's syndrome
- Asperger syndrome
- asperges