horsebox
IPA: hˈɔrsbɑks
noun
- (UK) A motor vehicle for transporting horses.
- A container for transporting horses in, whether by road, rail, or sea.
- (UK, rail transport, obsolete) A van-type railway vehicle specially built for the carriage of horses.
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Examples of "horsebox" in Sentences
- Can't wait to see how the horsebox house develops.
- Amazingly the horsebox arrived a few minutes before us.
- Who'd have thought a weekend in a horsebox could be so romantic.
- Rutherford was persuaded to abandon the horsebox at the Forth Road Bridge and a taxi was dispatched to bring him back to the track.
- Scraping together the money to put diesel in the horsebox is more of a concern than booking flights and transport to the Breeders' Cup in America.
- Gary Rutherford was identified as the only possibility, but had already left the course, cadging a lift in a horsebox, after taking part in the first race.
- But, park the horsebox in a flower-filled meadow, kit it out like a Toast photoshoot and give it a cute name – and you've got a retro-romantic-mini-break-on-wheels.
- OK, so a horsebox sounds about as glamorous as a portaloo, and, unless you are a pony-mad eight-year-old, the proposition of camping in one isn't likely to get a girl's heart cantering.
- By candlelight it was as cosy as a horsebox can be and we were snug as bugs – which I was trying NOT to think about, given our proximity to the pond – in the little bed above the driver's cabin.
- At the big jump horses auction in the South Yorkshire town, only moments after the local constabulary took a break, a horsebox belonging to trainer Colin Tizzard was stolen from the sales car park.
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