Definition of "horse-power" []

• Alternative spelling of horsepower. (noun)
• Obsolete spelling of horse power. (noun)

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• "A thousand miles beyond the last mission station toiled her engineers and spies, clad as coolies, under the guise of itinerant merchants or proselytizing Buddhist priests, noting down the horse-power of every waterfall, the likely sites for factories, the heights of mountains and passes, the strategic advantages and weaknesses, the wealth of the farming valleys, the number of bullocks in a district or the number of labourers that could be collected by forced levies."
• "Such innovations are critical for Intel as the Atom processor is still high horse-power and that's often not what the market needs if you look at specific users, says Ramamoorthy."
• ""Four thousand horse-power and forty-five miles an hour, though you wouldn't think it," he concluded proudly."