Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as horse-furniture.
  • noun Horse-power, as applied in moving machinery.

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Examples

  • The prisoner I speak of is better booty — a jolly monk riding to visit his leman, an I may judge by his horse-gear and wearing apparel. —

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • With each section there were thus a couple of baggage-cars in which the horse-gear, the superfluous baggage, and the travel rations were carried; and I also put aboard, not only at starting, but at every other opportunity, what oats and hay I could get, so as to provide against accidents for the horses.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • Among the saddles, horse-gear, weapons, grub and other equipment that had been put in the fort at Spur Creek was a telescope.

    The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders Willard F. Baker

  • Bid them fetch thee forth thy horse-gear, for thou wilt never rue Rudeger's counsel, and tell it to the maidens that thou takest with thee.

    The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour

  • Three English side-saddles had been brought out in the train for the ladies, while the men of the party took the horse-gear provided by the owner of the animals, instruments of torture known as Turkish saddles.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

  • Hats, blankets, horse-gear, rude articles of clothing, and the like were on the shelves or hung from rings in the ceiling.

    VI. Across the Andes and Northern Patagonia 1916

  • With each section there were thus a couple of baggage-cars in which the horse-gear, the superfluous baggage, and the travel rations were carried; and I also put aboard, not only at starting, but at every other opportunity, what oats and hay I could get, so as to provide against accidents for the horses.

    II. To Cuba 1899

  • The cruel curb-bit and heavy stock-saddle, with its high horn and cantle, prove that we have adopted Spanish-American horse-gear; and the broad hat, huge blunt spurs, and leather chaperajos of the rider, as well as the corral in which the stock are penned, all alike show the same ancestry.

    Out on the Range 1896

  • The prisoner I speak of is better booty --- a jolly monk riding to visit his leman, an I may judge by his horse-gear and wearing apparel.

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • With each section there were thus a couple of baggage-cars in which the horse-gear, the superfluous baggage, and the travel rations were carried; and I also put aboard, not only at starting, but at every other opportunity, what oats and hay I could get, so as to provide against accidents for the horses.

    The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt 1888

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