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Home Dictionary Name: horse powerHorse power
Horse power. A unit representing the power requi-red to lift 33,000 lbs. Vertically 1 foot per minute or, by electrical measurement, 746 watts, or 1000/746 of a Board of Trade unit of electricity. As to vehicles driven by mechanical power, see Regulations of the Ministry of Transport....
Horse power
The power which a horse exerts...
Horseless
Being without a horse specif not requiring a horse said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity steam etc as a horseless carriage or truck It was used primarily in the term ldquohorseless carriagerdquo to refer to automobiles By the 1930s when automobiles had become more common than horses for transportation the term had lost its currency...
Develop
To free from that which infolds or envelops to unfold to lay open by degrees or in detail to make visible or known to disclose to produce or give forth as to develop theories a motor that develops 100 horse power...
Kilowatt hour
A unit of work or energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour approximately equal to 134 horse power hour...
Motor Car
Motor Car, means a mechanically propelled vehicle, not being a motor cycle or an invalid carriage, which is constructed itself to carry a load or passengers and of which the weight unlades: (1) if it is constructed solely for the carriage of passengers and their effects, is adapted to carry not more than seven passengers exclusive of the driver, and is fitted with tyres of such type as may be specified in regulation made by the secretary of state, does not exceed 3,050 kilograms; (2) if it is constructed or adapted for use for the conveyance of goods or burden of any description does not exceed 3,050 kilograms, or 3,500 kilograms, if the vehicle carries a container or containers for holding, for the purpose of its propulsion; any fuel which is wholly gaseous at 17.5' Celsius under a pressure of 1.013 bar or plant and material for producing such fuel; or (3) in a case falling within neither head (1) nor head (2) above, does not exceed 2,540 kilograms, See Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th...
Glandered horses
Glandered horses. By 32 & 33 Vict. c. 70, ss. 57 and 60, penalties were imposed on persons bringing glandered horses, etc., into markets, etc., and provision is made for their seizure, slaughter, and burial; but the (English) Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 74), which repeals and replaces that Act, contains no such express provision, although by s. 32, sub-s. xxxii., it gave the Privy Council power to apply its provisions to horses and glanders and farcy; and the (English) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, s. 22, sub-ss. Xxxv. And xxxvi., appears to give a similar power to the Ministry of Agriculture by general words. See CONTAGIOUS DIESEASES (ANIMALS)....
Plow
A well known implement drawn by horses mules oxen or other power for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes as the subsoil plow the draining plow...
Slaughterhouses
Slaughterhouses, are licensed in the Metropolis under Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 50), s. 144, repealing the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, s. 20, and in large towns by the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, ss. 125-131, incorporated by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 169; by which Act it includes the buildings and places commonly called slaughter-houses and knacker's yards, and any building or place used for slaughtering cattle, horses or animals of any description for sale. As to the powers of the Ministry of Agriculture to regulate and restrict the slaughter of animals used for food, see the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1914.It means any place ordinarily used for the slaughter of animals for the purpose of selling the flesh thereof for human consumption. [Cantonments Act, 1924, s. 2(xxxiv)]...
Whig
Whig, said to be a word meaning 'sour milk'. The name was applied in Scotland, in 1648, to those violent Covenanters who opposed the Duke of Hamilton's invasion of England in order to restore Charles the First. Sir Walter Scott, however, gives a different derivation. Speaking of the rising of the Covenanters on this occasion, he says: 'This insurrection was called the Whigamores' Raid, from the word whig, whig, that is, get on, get on, which is used by the western peasants in driving their horses-a name destined to become the distinction of a powerful party in British history.'-Tales of a Grandfather, ch. xlv.The appellation of Whig and Tory to political factions was first heard of in 1679, and though as senseless as any cant terms that could be devised, they became instantly as familiar in use as they have since continued.-2 Hallam's Const. Hist., c 12.Whig and Tory differed mainly in this, that to a Tory the Constitution, inasmuch as it was the Constitution, with an ultimate point be...
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