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HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horse-drawn vehicle mean? 

HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLE (noun)
  The noun HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLE has 1 sense:

1. a wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horsesplay

  Familiarity information: HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("horse-drawn vehicle" is a kind of...):

wheeled vehicle (a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horse-drawn vehicle"):

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

chariot (a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome)

limber (a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson)

sulky (a light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse)


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