Meanings
adjectivehorse-drawn (not comparable)
alternative horsedrawn
- not comparablePulled along by one or more horses.
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 841 more example
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
Translations
Danish hestetrukken, hestetrukket
- hestetrukkenpulled along by horse
- hestetrukketpulled along by horse
Esperanto ĉevaltirata
- ĉevaltiratapulled along by horse
Finnish hevosvetoinen
- hevosvetoinenpulled along by horse
French hippomobile
- hippomobilepulled along by horse
Greek ιππήλατος
- ιππήλατος (ippílatos)pulled along by horse
Norwegian Bokmål hestetrukket
- hestetrukketpulled along by horse
Russian гужево́й, ко́нный
- гужево́й (guževój)pulled along by horse
- ко́нный (kónnyj)pulled along by horse
Spanish tirado por caballos, de caballos
- tirado por caballospulled along by horse
- de caballospulled along by horse
- hipomóvilpulled along by horse
- de tracción animalpulled along by horse
Swedish hästdragen, hästanspänd
- hästdragenpulled along by horse
- hästanspändpulled along by horse
Cite this entry
APA
horse-drawn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horse-drawn
MLA
“horse-drawn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horse-drawn. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “horse-drawn,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horse-drawn.
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