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horse powers

horse powers is the plural of horse power.

Meaning of horse power

Noun

horse power (plural horse powers)

  1. (dialectal, historical) Any of a class of machines that used draft horses as a source of power to an output shaft or sheave. Treadmill types and merry-go-round–like types existed.
    • In that era, they powered their corn sheller and their thresher with a horse power.
    Synonyms:
    horse engine
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: motive effort supplied by one or more horses.
    • In the 1920s through 1940s, the push for power farming aimed to replace horse power with tractor power on the farm.

Questions about horse powers

What is horse powers the plural of?
Horse powers is the plural of horse power.

Words near horse powers in the dictionary

  1. horse piss
  2. horse pistol
  3. horse pistols
  4. horse plum
  5. horse power
  6. horse powers
  7. horse puckey
  8. horse pucky
  9. horse race
  10. horse races
  11. horse racing

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