horse-drawn vehicle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhorse-drawnandvehicle
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horse-drawn
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈhɔːs.drɔːn/us/ˈhɔːrs.drɑːn/
A horse-drawn vehicle is pulled by ...
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vehicle
noun
uk/ˈvɪə.kəl/us/ˈviː.ə.kəl/
formal
a machine, usually with wheels and an engine, used for transporting people or goods, especially ...
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(Definition ofhorse-drawnandvehiclefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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No one will begrudge thehorse-drawnvehicleits place, and long may it remain there.
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There is the difference in the radius of operation of ahorse-drawnvehicleand its motor substitute, and there is also another matter.
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Ahorse-drawnvehiclepulling out of a side road into a main road at an excessive speed can be as dangerous as a motor vehicle.
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Everyhorse-drawnvehicleshould have the same regulations applied to it as every mechanically propelled vehicle.
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How are thehorse-drawnvehicleand the harnessed horse defined today from the point of view of legislation?
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But why should the driver of ahorse-drawnvehicleor a pedestrian or a push bicyclist take the trouble to buy it?
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He suggests one representative of thehorse-drawnvehicleowners.
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Ahorse-drawnvehiclemight be responsible for an accident or the driver might be a material witness.
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Another argument which has been used is that ahorse-drawnvehiclecan turn round in a very much smaller space than a motor vehicle.
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That being so, if we do not remove thehorse-drawnvehicleentirely, we should restrict it to certain hours of the day.
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The obvious thing to do is to remove the slowest moving traffic off the streets, and that happens to be thehorse-drawnvehicle.
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We should all be very sorry if thehorse-drawnvehicleshould disappear entirely.
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After all, it is ahorse-drawnvehicle, and it is, speaking generally, the slowest-moving of all horse-drawn vehicles on the road.
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The actual approach to these plantations is usually by people on foot, and not by people in motor cars or anyhorse-drawnvehicle.
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A man driving through with ahorse-drawnvehiclecannot go down the road and out at the other end.
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He said it was related to the days of thehorse-drawnvehicle—and it certainly was.
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It is the type of road vehicle most similar to thehorse-drawnvehicle.
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I believe that a certain number of people have found that it is more economical to employ the horse-drawnvehiclethan one which is mechanically propelled.
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A necessary qualification would be a knowledge of the localities within the radius of action of a motor cab, which is necessarily larger than that of ahorse-drawnvehicle.
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It was the invariable practice of the traffic courts, if an application came from the railway company to replace ahorse-drawnvehicleby a haulage vehicle, to grant the licence.
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