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Definition of Horsebox
1. Noun. A conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses.
Definition of Horsebox
1. Noun. a vehicle for transporting horses ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsebox
Literary usage of Horsebox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1866)
"So great was the force with which the horsebox was shattered, that the upper
framework was almost entirely separated from the bottom and wheels. ..."
2. The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the (1852)
"The horse having been injured by the horsebox being propelled against some trucks
through the gross negligence of the company,—Held, ..."
3. Railways and Other Ways: Being Reminiscences of Canal and Railway Life by Myles Pennington (1894)
"I declined to pay for a horsebox. They refused to let me have my pig. Officials
swarmed around me ; the station master advised me to pay for the horsebox ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Railways: Railway Companies, and Railway Investments by William Hodges, John Mounteney Lely (1888)
"... in a proper horsebox in the usual manner. The saddle was left on the horse,
according to the usual custom in such cases, with the stirrups hanging down. ..."
5. Our Railways: Their Origin, Development, Incident and Romance by John Pendleton (1896)
"The North-Western driver applied the brake; but his engine crashed into a Midland
horsebox, and went, with the tender and first van, over the viaduct into a ..."
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