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tram horse

tram horse noun: a horse used to pull a tram.

Noun

tram horse (plural tram horses)

  1. (historical) A horse used to pull a tram.
    • Once Mahbub and he went together as far as the beautiful city of Bombay, with three truckloads of tram-horses […].1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter X, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC
    • He bent down to rake the fire. He had a long back like the long back of a tramhorse.1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC

Forms of tram horse

pluraltram horses

Questions about tram horse

What does tram horse mean?
Tram horse means a horse used to pull a tram.
What part of speech is tram horse?
Tram horse is a noun.
What is the plural of tram horse?
The plural of tram horse is tram horses.

Words near tram horse in the dictionary

  1. tralse
  2. tralucent
  3. tram
  4. tram driver
  5. tram drivers
  6. tram horse
  7. Tram Inn
  8. tram line
  9. tram lines
  10. tram locomotive
  11. tram locomotives

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