horse ferry

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horse ferry (plural horse ferries)

  1. (now chiefly historical) A watercraft powered by horses or mules, generally using a treadmill.
  2. (now chiefly historical) A ferry that transports horses.
    • 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 45:
      Again, petitions against [Westminster Bridge] were received from many, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, in whose gift the horse ferry from Lambeth to Westminster lay.
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