Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A railroad-car fitted for the transportation of horses.
- noun A street-car drawn by horses.
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Examples
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He developed an elaborate horse-car railroad system, and it made him a natural for appointment, by Mayor Hugh J.
Steinway on the Superhighway Stuart Isacoff 2011
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It was a “palace horse-car,” projecting six inches wider than any car on the train.
CHAPTER V 2010
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Not only does he comport himself poorly, but his surname also implies that he may be a Jewish person, as does the fact that “he rode the bicycle to save his horse-car fare.”
The More Things Change...: Bicycles in the News BikeSnobNYC 2009
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He made his way there by horse-car and ferry — a dark, silent man — to the offices in question.
Sister Carrie 2004
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He hurried to Madison Street and boarded a horse-car, which carried him to Ogden Place in half an hour.
Sister Carrie 2004
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Cowperwood turned his eyes toward the completion of the second part of the programme — that of taking over the Washington Street tunnel and the Chicago West Division Company, which was still drifting along under its old horse-car regime.
The Titan 2004
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Its publication in the Atlantic had the effect of waking up horse-car poetry all over the world.
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They dodged a horse-car trolley and a cartload of earth being hauled for fill to the harbor, and hurried up the pretentious marble steps to the carved portals of the Palace.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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They dodged a horse-car trolley and a cartload of earth being hauled for fill to the harbor, and hurried up the pretentious marble steps to the carved portals of the Palace.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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Besides the water highway, on the other side, just a few feet beyond the iron roads, a horse-car track and a turnpike offer additional facilities for locomotion.
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