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horsebox

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Other forms: horseboxes

A horsebox is a vehicle for carrying horses by road. Load the horsebox.

The floor has to be firm and the ramp shallow, or a horse will refuse to walk up it. A horsebox is the thing most likely to teach a rider patience.

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Definitions of horsebox

  1. 1nounhorseboxA vehicle for carrying horses by road.B2

    “The horsebox took two and a spare set of tack.”

horsebox is a vehicle.

Where it comes from

Horse plus box, from the railway boxes horses first travelled in.

From horse + box.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Horses & Riding

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horsebox in the wild

  • A horse trailer or horse van (also called a horse float in Australia and New Zealand or horsebox in the British Isles) is used to transport horses.

    Horse trailer

  • Elis was one of the first horses to be transported by horsebox and landed a major betting coup for his owners by winning the St Leger.

    Elis (horse)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.