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Horseless  adj.  Being without a horse; specif., not requiring a horse; said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity, steam, etc.; as, a horseless carriage or truck. It was used primarily in the term "horseless carriage", to refer to automobiles. By the 1930's when automobiles had become more common than horses for transportation, the term had lost its currency. (archaic, except in a historical context.)






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"Horseless" Quotes from Famous Books



... such dogged determination as affected one almost with awe, had turned a vision into concrete reality. In a day when the only mechanical vehicles upon our streets were trolley cars, he had seen those streets thronged with "horseless carriages." He had seen streets packed from curb to curb with endless moving processions of them. He had seen the nation abandon its legs and take to motor- driven wheels. This had been his vision, and ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland



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