Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . -power, applied to thrashing-machines, pumps, House-POWER. Horse-hair. The hair of the manes and tails ofhorses, used in making haircloth, etc. See Haeii-CLorii. Horse Hay-fork. See Fork ; Hay-fork. Horse-hoe. The English name for the cultiva-tor for crops in rows. See Hoeino-machine. Horse-hitching Hook. {Menage.) A snap-hook on a short chain or strap a
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . -power, applied to thrashing-machines, pumps, House-POWER. Horse-hair. The hair of the manes and tails ofhorses, used in making haircloth, etc. See Haeii-CLorii. Horse Hay-fork. See Fork ; Hay-fork. Horse-hoe. The English name for the cultiva-tor for crops in rows. See Hoeino-machine. Horse-hitching Hook. {Menage.) A snap-hook on a short chain or strap attacked to a post orwall. The hook is snapped into the bit-ring, andthe arrangement saves the trouble of carrying ahitch-strap. ? {Hfenage.) A stocks or slinging Horse-holder. frame for unruly horses while shoe- Kg- 2567. ing, or for sick or disabled horses. In theexample,the horse is a wide belly-band that is con-nected to and op-erated by pulleysabove. The footto be .shod is se-cured to a slidingpost that runs ina groove on thefloor. Horse-iron.( Shipwriffhting. )A calking-iron of large size. A Horse-Holder. makiiui-iriin. Horse - lifter. {Vehicle.) A palanquin orstretcher resting on poles and borne by two HORSE-JIILL. 1125 flORSE-POWER. Horse-milL A mill turned by a horse. SeeGrixiiim; ; Mill. Horse-nail. A nail with a thick, strong head ;used ill securing shoes to the feet of horses. SeeHorse-shoe Xails. Horse-path. {Hydraulic Engineering.) Tlietowtnj-i)rttk of a canal. Horse-power. 1. The measure of a steam-en-gines power, as originally settled liy James lifting power eijual to 33,000 pounds onefoot high per minute. This was taken by Mr. Wattas the average [tower exerted by a mill-horse travel-ing at tlie rate of miles an hour (or 220 feet aminute), and raising a weight of 150 pounds by alope passing over a pulley. When a steam-engine is declared to be of such a horse-power, the must be under-stood in a qualif
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