one-horse

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one-horse

adjective more one-horse · most one-horse

Drawn or worked by a single horse. He constructed a one-horse plough for me about two years ago, which only weighs 581b., for planting potatoes.
Having no competitor.
broadly Small, insignificant. Let us have no one-horse candidate for the Presidency. General Grant is the man.

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@misc{one_horse_2026,
  title = {one-horse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/one-horse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}