Meaning of wheel-horse | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“The off wheel-horſe a grey, named Single Peeper, ſold for 50 [guineas] […] The near wheel-horſe cheſnut, named Chance.”

“In 1830 a bold and vigorous attempt⟳ was made to utilize the wheel-horse. A French post-office official, M. Dreuze by name⟳, brought forward⟳ an improvement on the old two-wheel velocipede, which bid fair to be successful. […] A number⟳ of the country letter-carriers were mounted on the wheel-horse, and whilst the roads continued dry and hard M. Dreuze could congratulate himself on the success of his invention; but with wet⟳ weather came bad roads, and to the wet⟳ succeeded frost and snow⟳. A little extra labour was all that was required to overcome⟳ the extra friction of the bad roads, but the wheels refused to progress⟳ on the slippy frozen surface.”

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