Meaning of horse power | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of a class of machines that used draft horses as a source of power to an output shaft or sheave. Treadmill types and merry-go-round–like types existed.
   dialectal, historical
2. Alternative spelling of horsepower (“unit of power equaling 745 watts or similar figure”).
   alt-of, alternative, archaic
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: motive effort supplied by one or more horses.

Examples

“In that era, they powered their corn sheller and their thresher with a horse power.”

“In the 1920s through 1940s, the push for power farming aimed to replace horse power with tractor power on the farm.”

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