horse power

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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
    — In that era, they powered their corn sheller and their thresher with a horse power.
  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.
    — In the 1920s through 1940s, the push for power farming aimed to replace horse power with tractor power on the farm.

词形变化

horse powers plural
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