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A horse-drawn vehicle is a mechanized piece of equipment pulled by one horse or by a team of horses. These vehicles typically had two or four wheels and were used to carry passengers and/or a load. They were once common worldwide, but they have mostly been replaced by
automobile A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods. The year 1886 is regarded ...
s and other forms of self-propelled transport.


General

Horses were domesticated circa 3500 BCE. Prior to that oxen were used. Historically a wide variety of arrangements of horses and vehicles have been used, from
chariot racing Chariot racing ( grc-gre, ἁρματοδρομία, harmatodromia, la, ludi circenses) was one of the most popular ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sports. In Greece, chariot racing played an essential role in aristocratic funeral games fro ...
, which involved a small vehicle and four horses abreast, to
horsecar A horsecar, horse-drawn tram, horse-drawn streetcar (U.S.), or horse-drawn railway (historical), is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar. Summary The horse-drawn tram (horsecar) was an early form of public rail transport, w ...
s or trollies, which used two horses to pull a car that was used in cities before electric
tram A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport ...
s were developed. A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle is a cart (see various types below, both for carrying people and for goods). Four-wheeled vehicles have many names – one for heavy loads is most commonly called a wagon. Very light carts and wagons can also be pulled by donkeys (much smaller than
horse The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million yea ...
s), ponies or mules. Other smaller animals are occasionally used, such as large dogs, llamas and
goat The goat or domestic goat (''Capra hircus'') is a domesticated species of goat-antelope typically kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (''C. aegagrus'') of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the a ...
s (see draught animals). Heavy wagons, carts and agricultural implements can also be pulled by other large draught animals such as oxen, water buffalo, yaks or even
camel A camel (from: la, camelus and grc-gre, κάμηλος (''kamēlos'') from Hebrew or Phoenician: גָמָל ''gāmāl''.) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus ''Camelus'' that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. ...
s and
elephant Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantida ...
s. Vehicles pulled by one animal (or by animals in a single file) have two ''shafts'' which attach either side of the rearmost animal (the ''wheel'' animal or ''wheeler''). Two animals in single file are referred to as a '' tandem'' arrangement, and three as a ''randem''. Vehicles which are pulled by a pair (or by a
team A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to inf ...
of several pairs) have a ''pole'' which attaches between the wheel pair. Other arrangements are also possible, for example, three or more abreast (a '' troika''), a wheel pair with a single lead animal (a "unicorn"), or a wheel pair with three lead animals abreast (a "pickaxe"). Very heavy loads sometimes had an additional team behind to slow the vehicle down steep hills. Sometimes at a steep hill with frequent traffic, such a team would be hired to passing wagons to help them up or down the hill. Horse-drawn carriages have been in use for at least 3,500 years. Two-wheeled vehicles are balanced by the distribution of weight of the load (driver, passengers, and goods) over the axle, and then held level by the animal – this means that the shafts (or sometimes a pole for two animals) must be fixed rigidly to the vehicle's body. Four-wheeled vehicles remain level on their own, and so the shafts or pole are hinged vertically, allowing them to rise and fall with the movement of the animals. A four-wheeled vehicle is also steered by the shafts or pole, which are attached to the front axle; this swivels on a ''turntable'' or "fifth wheel" beneath the vehicle. From the 15th century drivers of carts were known as carmen, and in London were represented by the Worshipful Company of Carmen. In 1890 there were 13,800 companies in the United States in the business of building carriages pulled by horses. By 1920, only 90 such companies remained.


Vehicles primarily for carrying people


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: much the same purpose as the modern sense. Details of the design varied but would be a lightly built and well-sprung, enclosed vehicle with provision for seated casualties and stretchers. * Barouche: an elegant, high-slung, open carriage with a seat in the rear of the body and a raised bench at the front for the driver, a servant. *
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: A four-wheeled covered carriage developed in the 17th century. * Brake: Describes several types of vehicles. A large, four-wheeled carriage frame, circa late 19th and early 20th century. *
Britzka A britzka (also spelled ''brichka'' or ''britska'') is a type of horse-drawn carriage. It was a long, spacious carriage with four wheels, as well as a folding top over the rear seat and a rear-facing front seat. Pulled by two horses, it had a pl ...
: A long, spacious carriage of four wheels, pulled by two horses. * Brougham: A specific, light four-wheeled carriage, circa mid 19th century. * Buckboard: A very simple four-wheeled wagon, circa early 19th century. * Buggy: a light, open, four-wheeled carriage, often driven by its owner. * Cabriolet: a shortening of ''cabriolet''.
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based the design of his public hire vehicle on the cabriolet so the name ''cab'' stuck to vehicles for public hire. *
Calash A barouche is a large, open, four-wheeled carriage, both heavy and luxurious, drawn by two horses. It was fashionable throughout the 19th century. Its body provides seats for four passengers, two back-seat passengers vis-à-vis two behind the c ...
or Calèshe: see ''barouche'': A four-wheeled, shallow vehicle with two double seats inside, arranged vis-à-vis, so that the sitters on the front seat faced those on the back seat. * Cape cart: A two-wheeled four-seater carriage drawn by two horses and formerly used in South Africa. *
Cariole A cariole (also spelled carriole) was a type of carriage used in the 18th and the 19th century. It was a light, small, two- or four-wheeled vehicle, open or covered, drawn by a single horse. The term is also used for a light covered cart or a d ...
: A light, small, two- or four-wheeled vehicle, open or covered, drawn by a single horse. *
Carriage A carriage is a private four-wheeled vehicle for people and is most commonly horse-drawn. Second-hand private carriages were common public transport, the equivalent of modern cars used as taxis. Carriage suspensions are by leather strapping ...
: in the late eighteenth century, roughly equivalent to the modern word "vehicle"
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It later came to be restricted to "passenger vehicle" and even to "private, enclosed passenger vehicle" ritannica This last is the sense adopted by the linked article. * Carryall: A type of carriage used in the United States in the 19th century. It is a light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually drawn by a single horse and with seats for four or more passengers. * Chaise: A light two- or four-wheeled traveling or pleasure carriage, with a folding hood or calash top for one or two people. *
Charabanc A charabanc or "char-à-banc" (often pronounced "sharra-bang" in colloquial British English) is a type of horse-drawn vehicle or early motor coach, usually open-topped, common in Britain during the early part of the 20th century. It has "ben ...
: A larger wagon pulled by multiple horses. *
Cidomo A Cidomo is a small horse-drawn carriage used in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Lombok and the Gili Islands of Indonesia. Etymology The name Cidomo is derived from the Sasak word or (a traditional handcart), (Balinese for pony cart) and ''mobil'' ...
: a form of horse-drawn carriage popular in the Lesser Sunda Islands of
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. * Clarence: A closed, four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle with a projecting glass front and seats for four passengers inside. *
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: A large, usually closed, four-wheeled carriage with two or more horses harnessed as a team, controlled by a coachman. *
Coupé A coupe or coupé (, ) is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors. The term ''coupé'' was first applied to horse-drawn carriages for two passengers without rear-facing seats. It comes from the French past parti ...
: The horse-drawn carriage equivalent of a modern coupe automobile. * Covered wagon: the name given to canvas-topped farm wagons used by North American settlers to move both their families and household goods westward. Varieties of this wagon include the ''Conestoga wagon'' (larger wagons able to carry large amounts of goods and primarily used on flat trails, for example the Santa Fe Trail) and ''prairie schooner'' (smaller wagons more suited for mountainous regions, for example the Oregon and California Trails). * Curricle: A smart, light two-wheeled chaise or "chariot", large enough for the driver and a passenger and usually drawn by a carefully matched pair of horses. *
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: a French stagecoach. The 19th-century ones came in three sizes, ''La petite diligence'', ''La grande diligence'' and ''L'impériale''. * Dog cart: a sprung cart used for transporting a gentleman, his loader, and his gun dogs. *
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Drag (carriage) A dogcart (or dog-cart) is a light horse-drawn vehicle, originally designed for sporting shooters, with a box behind the driver's seat to contain one or more retriever dogs. The dog box could be converted to a second seat. Later variants included ...
* Droshky or Drozhki: A low, four-wheeled open carriage used especially in Russia. * Equipage *
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- a one horse cart of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. * Fiacre: A form of hackney coach, a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire. *
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: A horse-drawn public coach or delivery wagon, especially one let out for hire. * Four-in-hand coach * Gharry: A horse-drawn cab especially used in India. *
Gig (carriage) A gig, also called chair or chaise, is a light, two-wheeled sprung cart pulled by one horse. Description Gig carts are constructed with the driver's seat sitting higher than the level of the shafts. Traditionally, a gig is more formal than a vil ...
: A light, two-wheeled sprung cart pulled by one horse. *
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* Governess cart: a sprung cart with two inward-facing benches, high sides and entry at the back. The upper part of the body was often of wicker. * Growler: the four-wheeled version of a hansom cab *
Horsebus A horse-bus or horse-drawn omnibus was a large, enclosed, and sprung horse-drawn vehicle used for passenger transport before the introduction of motor vehicles. It was mainly used in the late 19th century in both the United States and Europe ...
* Hackney carriage: A carriage for hire, especially in London. * Hansom cab: a one-horsed, two-wheeled, manoeuvrable public hire vehicle. * Hearse: The horse-drawn version of a modern hearse. * Herdic: A specific type of horse-drawn carriage, used as an omnibus. * Jaunting car: a sprung cart in which passengers sat back to back with their feet outboard of the wheels. *
Karozzin The karozzin is a Maltese traditional mode of transport consisting of a carriage pulled by a horse or pair of horses. It was once popular for general transit and is still used in ceremonies such as funerals, and as a tourist attraction. It is mo ...
: a traditional Maltese carriage drawn by one horse or a pair * Kid hack: a
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used in the US for carrying children to and from school. *
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: A low-shelled, luxury, convertible carriage. *
Limousine A limousine ( or ), or limo () for short, is a large, chauffeur-driven luxury vehicle with a partition between the driver compartment and the passenger compartment. A very long wheelbase luxury sedan (with more than four doors) driven by a pr ...
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Meadowbrook (carriage) Meadowbrook may refer to: Places *Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia, a suburb of Brisbane United States * Meadowbrook, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Meadowbrook, California, a census-designated place * Meadowbrook, Cornwall, New York, a ...
* Omnibus * One-horse shay: a light, covered, two-wheeled carriage for two persons, drawn by a single horse. * Outside car: see ''jaunting car'': A light two-wheeled carriage for a single horse, possibly with passenger seats facing sideways over the wheels * Phaeton: a light-weight horse-drawn open carriage (usually with two seats); or an early-nineteenth-century sports car * Post chaise: A fast carriage for traveling post in the 18th and early 19th centuries. *
Ralli car A Ralli car (or Rally cart) is a traditional type of horse-drawn cart A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is p ...
: a light two wheeled sprung cart (
gig Gig or GIG may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Gig'' (Circle Jerks album) (1992) * ''Gig'' (Northern Pikes album) (1993) * ''The Gig'', a 1985 film written and directed by Frank D. Gilroy * GIG, a character in ''Hot Wheels AcceleRacers'' ...
) with two forward-facing and two rear-facing seats back-to-back, and a sliding fore-and-aft seat adjustment to allow the vehicle to balance with different numbers of passengers. * Ratha: The Indo-Iranian term for a spoked-wheel chariot or a cart of antiquity. * Rig * Rockaway: A term applied to two types of carriage: a light, low, United States four-wheel carriage with a fixed top and open sides that may be covered by waterproof curtains, and a heavy carriage enclosed at sides and rear, with a door on each side. * Sleigh: a vehicle with runners for use in snow * Spider phaeton: Of American origin and made for gentlemen drivers, a high and lightly constructed carriage with a covered seat in front and a footman's seat behind * Sprung cart: a light, two-wheeled vehicle with springing, for informal passenger use. Its name varied according to the body mounted on it. See dog cart,
gig Gig or GIG may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Gig'' (Circle Jerks album) (1992) * ''Gig'' (Northern Pikes album) (1993) * ''The Gig'', a 1985 film written and directed by Frank D. Gilroy * GIG, a character in ''Hot Wheels AcceleRacers'' ...
, governess cart, jaunting car, and trap. *
Stagecoach A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are dra ...
: a public coach travelling in timetabled stages between stables which supply fresh horses. *
Stanhope (carriage) The stanhope was a gig, buggy, or light phaeton, typically having a high seat for one person and closed back. It was named after Captain Hon. Henry FitzRoy Stanhope (ca. 1754 - 1828, son of William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington), a well-known ...
: a light, open, one-seated carriage: originally with two wheels, later also with four. * State Coach: a very grand coach used for royal
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s. For example, Gold State Coach, Irish State Coach, Lord Mayor of London's State Coach, Scottish State Coach and the
Speaker's State Coach The Speaker's State Coach is the oldest of the three great State Coaches of the United Kingdom. Like the Gold State Coach and the Lord Mayor of London's State Coach it is elaborately carved and gilded, and is decorated with allegorical paintings b ...
. * Sulky: a very light two-wheeled cart for one person, especially used for harness racing. *
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: A popular American doorless, four-wheeled carriage of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, usually two seated for four passengers. * Tanga: a light horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...
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Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
, and
Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...
. * Tarantass or Tarantas: A Russian four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle on a long longitudinal frame. *
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: A light, open, two-wheeled carriage, with or without a top *
Training cart Training is teaching, or developing in oneself or others, any skills and knowledge or fitness that relate to specific useful competencies. Training has specific goals of improving one's capability, capacity, productivity and performance. I ...
or training trap: a simple sprung or unsprung two-person modern cart for training a harness horse on smooth roads. Often made of steel with
motorcycle A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or trike (if three-wheeled)) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle Steering, steered by a Motorcycle handlebar, handlebar. Motorcycle design varies greatly to suit a range of different purposes: Long-distance ...
wheels, and sometimes with adjustable shafts for different-sized horses. * Trap: an open sprung cart. Often used in a general sense to cover any small passenger-carrying cart. * Troika: a sleigh drawn by three horses harnessed abreast. Occasionally, a similar wheeled vehicle. *
Vardo (gypsy wagon) A vardo (also wag(g)on, living wagon, van, and caravan) is a traditional horse-drawn wagon used by British Romanichal Travellers as their home. A vardo must have four wheels, with two being used for steering. The vehicle is typically highly de ...
: a vardo is a traditional horse-drawn wagon used by English Romani Gypsies. * Victoria: a one-horse carriage with a front-facing bench seat. The body was slung low, in front of the back axle. Driven by a servant. *
Village cart A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
* Vis-à-vis: Refers to the seating arrangement, with a rear seat facing forward and the forward seat facing to the rear. * Voiturette * Wagonette: a four-wheeled vehicle for carrying people, usually with a forward-facing seat at the front and two rows of inward-facing seats behind. *
Whim Whim may refer to: * Whim, U.S. Virgin Islands, a settlement * Whim (mining), a capstan or drum with a vertical axle used in mining * Whim (carriage), a type of carriage * ''Whim'', a reissue of ''Adventures of Wim'', a book by George Cockroft ...
* Whitechapel: a two-wheeled horse-drawn cart similar to a dog cart. Lightweight and versatile.


Railway

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Horsecar A horsecar, horse-drawn tram, horse-drawn streetcar (U.S.), or horse-drawn railway (historical), is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar. Summary The horse-drawn tram (horsecar) was an early form of public rail transport, w ...
(also ''streetcar'', US name, or ''tram'', outside the US)


Waterway

* Fly boat: A canal boat which changed horses at stages and could therefore keep moving, care being taken to maximize its speed. * Horse-drawn boat


Vehicles primarily for carrying goods


Road

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Bow wagon Bow often refers to: * Bow and arrow, a weapon * Bowing, bending the upper body as a social gesture * An ornamental knot made of ribbon Bow may also refer to: * Bow (watercraft), the foremost part of a ship or boat * Bow (position), the rower ...
: A simple agricultural wagon with laths bowed over the wheels in the manner of mudguards, to keep bulky loads such as straw from contact with them. An Australian design. * Un-sprung cart: A simple two-wheeled vehicle for workaday use in carrying bulk loads. It was usually drawn by one horse. * Chuckwagon * Chasse-maree: A four-horse adaptation of the cart principle for the rapid delivery of fish to French markets. * Conestoga wagon: A large, curved-bottom wagon for carrying commercial or government freight. See covered wagon. * Cart: Particularly in Australia and New Zealand, an un-sprung cart. In Britain, even in the 18th century, the name came to be associated with brewers' deliveries so that the later vehicle that was more correctly called a trolley also came to be known as a ''brewer's dray''. These are still seen at horse shows in Britain. :Also a sledge used for moving felled trees in the same way as the wheeled skidder. (See implements, below). It could be used in woodland, apparently with or without snow, but was useful on frozen lakes and waterways. ED* Float: A light, two-wheeled domestic delivery vehicle with the centre of its axle cranked downward to allow low-loading and easy access to the goods. It was used particularly for milk delivery. * Lorry: A low-loading platform body with four small wheels mounted underneath it. The driver's seat was mounted on the headboard. * Mail coach: A stagecoach primarily for the carriage of mail, though also carrying passengers. * Mophrey: An un-sprung cart which could be extended forwards with the addition of front wheels. It was used by small farmers as and when dense or bulky loads were to be carried (muck-spreading and harvest). An eastern English design. *
Pantechnicon van A pantechnicon van was originally a furniture removal van drawn by horses and used by the British company "The Pantechnicon" for delivering and collecting furniture which its customers wished to store. The name is a word largely of British Engl ...
: Originally, a van used by The Pantechnicon for delivering goods to its customers. * Prairie schooner: The name given years later to the canvas-topped farm wagons used by North American settlers to move their families and capital goods westward. See covered wagon and Conestoga wagon. *
Telega Telega ( rus, теле́га, p=tʲɪˈlʲɛgə) is a type of four-wheel horse-drawn vehicle, whose primary purpose is to carry loads, similar to a wain, known in Russia and other countries. It has been defined as "a special type commonly used i ...
* Travois: A very simple sledge used for moving relatively small loads, consisting of a pair of shafts dragging on the ground. * Trolley: Like a lorry, but with slightly larger wheels and slightly higher deck. The driver's seat was mounted on the headboard. * Trolley and lift van: A standardized trolley and a lift van, a standardized box, designed to fit each other or any other of the same sort. The lift van was the direct counterpart of the modern container in the materials and size appropriate to its time. * Wagon: See also
twenty mule team Twenty-mule teams were teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that transported borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1889. They traveled from mines across the Mojave Desert to the nearest railroad spur, away in Moja ...
* Wain


Railway

* Wagonways - horse drawn trains. * Rubbish wagon or slab wagon or
slate wagon Slate wagons are specialized types of railway wagons designed for the conveyance of slate. The characteristics of this stone led to the development of small open cars that carried the slate in its various forms. These were first developed on the ...
: A small, four-wheeled truck used for carrying blocks of slate out of a quarry. *
Dandy waggon The dandy waggon is a type of railway carriage used to carry horses on gravity trains. They are particularly associated with the narrow gauge Festiniog Railway (FR) in Wales where they were used between 1836 and 1863. The challenge The cha ...
: A special rail car on a gravity train used to transport the horse while coasting down a hill.


Waterway

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Broad boat Broad(s) or The Broad(s) may refer to: People * A slang term for a woman. * Broad (surname), a surname Places * Broad Peak, on the border between Pakistan and China, the 12th highest mountain on Earth * The Broads, a network of mostly nav ...
: Used on the broad (14 ft) canals of Britain and towed from the tow path. * Flatboat: A canal boat of simple box-shaped design used on nineteenth-century American waterways. * Horse-drawn boat: A general term relating to broad or narrow canal boats for passenger or freight carriage. * Narrowboat: Used on the narrow (7 ft) canals of Britain and towed from the tow path. * Slow boat: A canal boat which used only one team of horses which must stop each night to rest.


Agricultural and other implements

* Calliope or Fairground organ * Koneke noun, New Zealand - a farm vehicle with runners in front and wheels at the rear aori * Plough *
Potato spinner Potato harvesters are machines that harvest potatoes. They work by lifting the potatoes from the bed using a share. Soil and crop are transferred onto a series of webs where the loose soil is sieved out. The potatoes are moved towards the back of ...
* Reaper *
Reaper-binder The reaper-binder, or binder, is a farm implement that improved upon the simple reaper. The binder was invented in 1872 by Charles Baxter Withington, a jeweler from Janesville, Wisconsin. In addition to cutting the small-grain crop, a binder als ...
* Seed drill * Skidder * Thresher


War vehicles

* Caisson/Limber * Chariot * Gun carriage * Horse artillery * Scythed chariot * Tachanka *
War wagon A war wagon is any of several historical types of early fighting vehicle involving an armed or armored animal-drawn cart or wagon. China One of the earliest example of using conjoined wagons in warfare as fortification is described in the Chinese ...


See also

* Cart * Combined driving *
Draft horse A draft horse (US), draught horse (UK) or dray horse (from the Old English ''dragan'' meaning "to draw or haul"; compare Dutch ''dragen'' and German ''tragen'' meaning "to carry" and Danish ''drage'' meaning "to draw" or "to fare"), less oft ...
* Driving (horse) *
Guard stone A guard stone, jostle stone or ''chasse-roue'' ( French lit. "wheel chaser"), is a projecting metal, concrete, or stone exterior architectural element located at the corner and/or foot of gates, portes-cochères, garage entries, and walls to p ...
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Horse harness Horse harness is a device that connects a horse to a vehicle or another type of load. There are two main categories of horse harness: (1) the "breaststrap" or "breastcollar" design, and (2) the collar and hames design. For light work, such as ...
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Naturmobil The Naturmobil is a horse-powered vehicle for travel on paved roads. The vehicle is controlled by a driver in a similar way to a motor-driven vehicle, with the horse inside the vehicle on a treadmill. It weighs , or probably around with the horse ...
* Types of carriages * Wagon


Notes


References


Citations


Sources

* ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1960) * Ingram, A. ''Horse-Drawn Vehicles Since 1760'' (1977) * Oxford English Dictionary (1971 & 1987) * Walker, J. ''A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language'' (1791)


External links


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