Citations:machiner

English citations of machiner

Noun: "horse employed to pull a vehicle"

• 1798, John Lawrence, A philosophical and practical treatise on horses‎^[1]:

  I have often wished it were possible to extirpate the whole race of those Belgic locusts, the heavy cart-horses, and to divide the duties of flow-draft between polled oxen and cast-off machiners.

• 1858, Dionysius Lardner, Hand-book of natural philosophy: Mechanics‎^[2]:

  An ox harnessed to a vehicle can exercise a tractive force equal to that of a horse, but he produces less than half of the effect, owing to his natural slowness; but as a machiner, where speed is not required, the efficiency of an ox is nearly equal to that of a horse.

• 1871, John Henry Walsh, The horse in stable and the field: his management in health and disease‎^[3]:

  The upright form is stronger, as the weight is placed more directly over the column which bears it, but it allows of less elasticity under the sudden shock given by the impetus of the body as it approaches the earth, and for this reason is only suited to the slow work of the cart-horse, or heavy machiner.