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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
horse-drawn
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
carriage
▪ Guests arrived by horse-drawn carriages and the path to the Castle was lit by blazing torches.
▪ Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages did a century ago.
▪ Great-grandfather had been a coachman in the days of horse-drawn carriages.
▪ The customary horse-drawn carriages will be running throughout, and downtown galleries will be wide open to visitors.
▪ We'd squeeze to the dusty walls to let the horse-drawn carriages past.
▪ After watching a match you can take a scenic canter in a horse-drawn carriage.
▪ They arrived for their wedding in a horse-drawn carriage.
cart
▪ Well, there was a lot to be said for the horse-drawn cart.
▪ Men drove horse-drawn carts, women carried bundles of food and firewood.
▪ Huge, ancient diesel trucks lumbered through the crowd between tractors and horse-drawn carts.
▪ Its people flee in terror on tractors, horse-drawn carts, cars or on foot.
▪ The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available.
vehicle
▪ After much deliberation, six horse-drawn vehicles were selected to complement the existing road transport collections.
▪ In and out of the visual field of the lens passed the pedestrians and the horse-drawn vehicles.
▪ Early in Bore's time, minutes refer to horse-drawn vehicles of various types manufactured at Wolverton.
▪ At Foster Place, one of the new taxicabs stood alone among the horse-drawn vehicles for hire.
▪ There were still many horse-drawn vehicles about.
▪ He was a representative of a mill called Waddells and he had a strange-looking horse-drawn vehicle, square shaped with high sides.
▪ Communication with Hull was maintained by horse-drawn vehicles, daily local carriers taking anything and everything needed by the villagers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a horse-drawn carriage
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A quarter bought a large family-sized dish of ice cream from a horse-drawn wagon that circled the neighborhood.
▪ Early in Bore's time, minutes refer to horse-drawn vehicles of various types manufactured at Wolverton.
▪ It was initially horse-drawn, and later a Simplex Tractor was used.
▪ Like skating, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and horse-drawn sleigh and dogsled rides.
▪ Little Round Top was the more important position, for it could be ascended by horse-drawn artillery.
▪ On the forecourt stood a horse-drawn van on which was painted the name of a firm of landscape gardeners in flowery script.
▪ There were horse-drawn cabs with the hoods let down, and cars going by.
▪ They had a horse-drawn wagon full of clocks.
Wiktionary
horse-drawn

a. ((non-gloss definition: pertaining to a vehicle such as a cart, carriage etc.)) pulled along by one or more horses. alt. ((non-gloss definition: pertaining to a vehicle such as a cart, carriage etc.)) pulled along by one or more horses.

WordNet
horse-drawn

adj. pulled by a horse; "a horse-drawn carriage"

Usage examples of "horse-drawn".

Still, his gaze swept past the dryland farmer and his horse-drawn plow to follow the trail of newly turned earth until he found its starting point.

There was the story of the Japanese cemetery where so many divers ended their days, pictures of Chinatown with its dim shops and seedy opium dens, a famous Indian pearl cleaner who was known for his precise skill in stripping away the rough outer layers of valuable pearls, the horse-drawn train that ran along the wharf, the shanty township with beached luggers on the foreshore at Dampier Creek.

So the worried whispers go, though trucks and horse-drawn wagons, not trains, usually haul in and out everything but human beings.

Horse-drawn buses and electric trams were only partly full, most people being at their places of work by now.

Stack, whoever he was, had solved his problem and opened the pathway to the development of airplanes that could break through the sound barrier almost as undisturbed as a horse-drawn carriage heading for a country picnic in 1903.

Such food wagons were constructed in large factories on the frames for horse-drawn trolley cars and were made to seat several customers inside the wagon, at a counter on a row of fixed stools.

Those waiting with handcarts and a few improvised horse-drawn vehicles managed to raise a cheer as well, although this load was not grain but several dozen loudly argumentative pigs, the last left on the ship.

Which usually meant, as was the way with those old jossers well above the pensionable age, talking about the dim and distant past when a pint of beer was a pint of beer and the sound of a horse-drawn cart approaching along the road outside was enough to send every self-respecting householder running for his dustpan and broom.

He took a statistical view of all those who bathed in roof gutters, clamored behind horse-drawn vehicles, and descended on playgrounds after the last bell: in his opinion they were all individualists that had camouflaged themselves as a mass society.

Half the ships in port used human-powered winches to unload, or doubled-over stevedores, groaning as they dumped gunnysacks onto horse-drawn wagons.

We were riding in a horse-drawn calash, jostling hard as the driver maneuvered around the evening theater traffic.

Thronging the roads from the Belgian border north to Arnhem and beyond were trucks, buses, staff cars, half-track vehicles, armored cars, horse-drawn farm carts and civilian automobiles running on charcoal or wood.

In the late afternoon, they took a calandria, a horse-drawn carriage, to Pie de la Cuesta, the sunset beach, and then returned to town.

Horse-drawn vehicles moved crowdedly, but the pavements were clean and the smell of dung faint because the animals wore a kind of diapers.

There were horse-drawn sleighs and dog sleds and a herd of Rotarians dressed as abominable snowmen.