"one-horse" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more one-horse [comparative], most one-horse [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} one-horse (comparative more one-horse, superlative most one-horse)
  1. Drawn or worked by a single horse.
    Sense id: en-one-horse-en-adj-KadQ4ZKH
  2. (by extension) Small, insignificant. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-one-horse-en-adj-BIhYin9l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95

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          "text": "He constructed a one-horse plough for me about two years ago, which only weighs 581b., for planting potatoes.",
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          "ref": "1857, James Lord Pierpont, One Horse Open Sleigh (Jingle Bells)",
          "text": "Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!",
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          "ref": "2013, Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers",
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          "ref": "1871, The Catholic Record - Volumes 1-2, page 47",
          "text": "Let us have no one-horse candidate for the Presidency. General Grant is the man.",
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          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses",
          "text": "A Nestor may reappear as an elderly pedagogue, a Circe as the \"Madam\" of a one-horse brothel.",
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          "ref": "2014, James A. Michener, A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise, page 132",
          "text": "The Great Powers never think of us as a one-horse state.",
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          "ref": "2016, Fanny Fern, Folly as It Flies, page 112",
          "text": "Going from its one-horse hotel, to the model hotel of Philadelphia, was almost too sudden a change even for my excellent constitution.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses",
          "text": "A Nestor may reappear as an elderly pedagogue, a Circe as the \"Madam\" of a one-horse brothel.",
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          "ref": "2014, James A. Michener, A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise, page 132",
          "text": "The Great Powers never think of us as a one-horse state.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2016, Fanny Fern, Folly as It Flies, page 112",
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