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Horse

noun

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times. Synonym: Equus caballus.

A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs. Synonym: gymnastic horse.

Troops trained to fight on horseback. Synonyms: cavalry, horse cavalry.

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed. Synonyms: buck, sawbuck, sawhorse.

A chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa). Synonym: knight.

verb

(past & past part. horsed; pres. part. horsing)

Provide with a horse or horses.

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"Horse" Quotes from Famous Books

... I wasn't glad to do it!" laughed the boy, gallantly, as he picked up the reins and sprang into the cart. To the horse he added later, when quite out of earshot of the ladies: "Jerry, I'm thinking Genevieve isn't the only one in that house that has 'improved' since last August. It strikes me that Miss Jane Chick has done a little on her own account. Did you see ...

— The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch • Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

... the Last Rose of Summer and a bobtailed flush!" says I, "what d'yer mean? What's got into you? Get out of my daylight, you dog-robber, or I'll walk the little horse around your neck like a three-ringed circus. Come, pull ...

— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips

... too much cause for his words. Never shall I forget the day when Scrope was put to death on this very moor on which we are entering. There sat my father on his horse, with us four boys around him, when the old man passed in front of us, and looked at him with a face pitiful and terrible. "Harry of Bolingbroke," he said, "because thou hast done these things, therefore shall thy foes be of thine own household; the sword shall ...

— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Tinandra Downs cattle station on the Gilbert River in the far north of North Queensland, was riding slowly over his run, when, as the fierce rays of a blazing sun, set in a sky of brass, smote upon his head and shoulders and his labouring stock-horse plodded wearily homewards over the spongy, sandy soil, the lines of Barcroft Boake came to his mind, and, after he had repeated ...

— In The Far North - 1901 • Louis Becke

... Stonor camped on the prairie half-way home. As he lay wooing sleep under the stars, his horse cropping companionably near by, a new thought caused him to sit up suddenly in ...

— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner

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