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horse-drawn

horse-drawn adjective: pulled along by one or more horses.

Adjective

horse-drawn (not comparable)

  1. Pulled along by one or more horses.
    • The trains were going at something less than 20 miles an hour. That doesn't sound much to us, [...] But a fast horse-drawn carriage at the time moved at only 10 miles an hour.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 41, The Metropolitan Railway
    • Only three horse-drawn barges remain in England, and this is the last in the West Country.2016, Hilary Bradt, Janice Booth, Slow Travel East Devon & The Jurassic Coast, page 84

Forms of horse-drawn

alternative formhorsedrawn

Questions about horse-drawn

What does horse-drawn mean?
Horse-drawn means pulled along by one or more horses.
What part of speech is horse-drawn?
Horse-drawn is an adjective.

Words near horse-drawn in the dictionary

  1. horse-chestnuts
  2. horse-collar
  3. horse-collars
  4. horse-comb
  5. horse-combs
  6. horse-drawn
  7. horse-drench
  8. horse-drenches
  9. horse-faced
  10. horse-flies
  11. horse-fly

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