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horse car

horse car is the alternative form of horsecar.

Meaning of horsecar

Noun

horsecar (plural horsecars)

  1. A streetcar or tram drawn by a horse.
    • Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, […]1878, Henry James, An International Episode
  2. A freight car designed for transporting horses.

Forms of horse car

pluralhorse cars

Questions about horse car

What is horse car the alternative form of?
Horse car is the alternative form of horsecar.

Words near horse car in the dictionary

  1. horse bun
  2. horse bus
  3. horse buses
  4. horse butcher
  5. horse butchers
  6. horse car
  7. horse cars
  8. horse cart
  9. horse carts
  10. horse chestnut
  11. horse chestnuts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horse car (page history and authors); horsecar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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