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horsebox en · NOUN

Etymology

From horse + box.

Meanings

  1. (UK) A motor vehicle for transporting horses.
  2. A container for transporting horses in, whether by road, rail, or sea.
  3. (UK, obsolete) A van-type railway vehicle specially built for the carriage of horses.
    • On October 31 [...] Laira "Grange" No. 6871 passed through Wolverhampton with a Holyhead-Didcot horsebox special. 1960 January, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 58:

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Translations (4)

fr van (vehicle) · sv hästtransport (vehicle) · it box (vehicle) · sv hästsläp (vehicle)