tram horse

noun

A horse used to pull a tram.

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Meanings

nountram horse (plural tram horses)

plural tram horses

  1. historicalA horse used to pull a tram.

    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
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    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
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