Hrosspower
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Jump to navigationJump to search- horsepower: the standard unit in which the power of motorcar engines is measured
- hross: (Old Icelandic) horse → horses were used at the Battle of Waterloo
- Rosse: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse; an Irish amateur astronomer and the builder of the Parsonstown Leviathan, the world’s largest telescope (tallowscoop) → Rosse was a stargazer → Jonathan Swift's Stella (the Latin word for star) is identified with Issy in FW
- cross power → the Catholic Church