paardewagen, noun
- Origin:
- DutchShow more Dutch, paard horse + euphonic -e- + wagen wagon.
obs.
see quotation 1824.
1822 W.J. Burchell Trav. I. 27Horse-waggon. This is so called in contradistinction to the more common waggon drawn by oxen, which travels usually about three English miles in an hour; but the Paardewagen goes at a trot, estimated at six miles in an hour.
[1949 L.G. Green In Land of Afternoon 204A voortrekker perdewa (horse-drawn carriage) built in 1837 at Murraysburg.]
see quotation 1824.
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