horse power en · NOUN
Meanings
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(dialectal, historical) Any of a class of machines that used draft horses as a source of power to an output shaft or sheave. Treadmill types and merry-go-round–like types existed.
In that era, they powered their corn sheller and their thresher with a horse power.
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(alt-of, alternative, archaic) Alternative spelling of horsepower (“unit of power equaling 745 watts or similar figure”).
alt of horsepower
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: motive effort supplied by one or more horses.
In the 1920s through 1940s, the push for power farming aimed to replace horse power with tractor power on the farm.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| horse powers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
wind engine · water engine · manpower · windmill · donkey engine · donkey power · donkey power · watermill · humanpower
Relateds
horse-power · horsepower · horse-power