horse-drawn wagons

[keannu]

I think the difference between 1 and 2 is that in 1, a horse draws wagons while in 2, wagons draw a horse, and rule 2 can be applied to "time-consuming job" as well. Are these two forms universal for any same forms?

1.horse-drawn wagons
2.horse-drawing wagons
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[MikeNewYork]

I have never heard of "horse-drawing wagons". There were a couple of hits on Google with that phrase, but they were from the late 19th/early twentieth century.

 

[keannu]

If it's used, doesn't it mean this? I know it doesn't make sense, but I'd like to know the general rule.
---wagons draw a horse

 

[MikeNewYork]

When it was used, it did not mean that.

 

[emsr2d2]

"A time-consuming job" is a job which consumes a lot of time. Using the same logic, "A horse-drawing carriage" would be a "carriage which draws (pulls) a horse". That makes no sense at all.

If you insisted on using the same construction as the "job" example, it would be a "carriage-drawing horse". However, that term is not used and it never has been. You can't transfer a construction used in one set phrase to another random set of words.