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A horse mill is a mill, sometimes used in conjunction with a watermill or windmill, that uses a horse engine as the power source. Any milling process can be powered in this way, but the most frequent use of animal power in horse mills was for grinding grain and pumping water.
The term "horse power" probably predates the name of the horsepower unit of measurement. [Notes 1] The word "power" in late-19th-century American English, for example, was often used for any example in the whole category of power sources, including water powers, wind powers, horse powers (for example, sweep powers), dog powers, and even (in a few cases) sheep powers; in the Pennsylvania Oil ...
An animal engine is a machine powered by an animal. Horses, donkeys, ... (horse powered boat) Gin gang; Horse mill; Horse engine; Persian well; Treadwheel; Turnspit dog;
in 1251 the customary tenants of the bishop of Ely were required to use the horse mill even though other mills were available. Horningsea A horse-powered mill in 1251. Little Eversden A horse mill £50 (on the coprolite workings).1871. Meldreth: A horse-powered mill was used to process material from coprolite mine between 1860 and 1890.
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Gin gang at Burn Bridge, North Yorkshire The Burn Bridge gin gang demolished due to disrepair, November 2010, to be rebuilt as domestic accommodation. A gin gang, wheelhouse, roundhouse or horse-engine house is a structure built to enclose a horse engine, usually circular but sometimes square or octagonal, attached to a threshing barn.
Horse ferry in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1900. Two horses for power, with Capt. Horace McElfresh and son. A team boat, horse boat, or horse ferry, is a watercraft powered by horses or mules, generally using a treadmill, which serves as a horse engine. [1] [2] Team boats were popular as ferries in the United States from the mid-1810s to the 1850s.
^ ihp: The power of a mill engine was originally measured in Nominal Horse Power, but this system understated the power of a compound McNaught system suitable for compounds, ihp or indicated horse power. As a rule of thumb ihp is 2.6 times nhp, in a compound engine.