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horsebox

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From horse + box.

noun horseboxes

  1. UK A motor vehicle for transporting horses.
  2. A container for transporting horses in, whether by road, rail, or sea.
  3. UK, obsolete A van-type railway vehicle specially built for the carriage of horses. On October 31 [...] Laira "Grange" No. 6871 passed through Wolverhampton with a Holyhead-Didcot horsebox special.

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"horsebox." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/horsebox. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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horsebox. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/horsebox

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"horsebox." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/horsebox.

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@misc{horsebox_2026,
  title = {horsebox},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/horsebox},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}