pair-horse, a.
(ˈpɛərhɔːs)
[Condensed from pair of horse(s used attrib.: cf. two-horse, four-horse, four-wheel, etc.]
For a pair of horses. Hence pair-horsed a.
| 1842 Ainsworth's Mag. II. 429 The ‘Bath pair-horse Invalid’ now drew up..for the elderly gentleman. 1854 C. D. Yonge tr. Athenæus III. 935 Bringing with him Glycera, the daughter of Thalamis in a pair-horse chariot. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Pair-horse Harness, the general name given to double harness in England. 1900 Daily News 27 Sept. 9/1 His attempt to beat the one mile pair-horse English record of 2 minutes 35 1–5 seconds. 1902 [see differential a. 4 b]. 1905 Daily Chron. 22 May 6/3 The costly motor-cars of the humble workmen and the pair-horsed carriages of the lordly labourers. 1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger i. iii. 19 A couple of pair-horsed trams. 1914 Conrad Chance i. vii. 193 Just then the racket was distracting, a pair-horse trolley lightly loaded with loose rods of iron passing slowly very near us. |