horse.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
Meaning & usage
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
She loved taming horses on Saturday.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. A male horse, as opposed to a mare.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. A component of certain games. The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. A component of certain games. A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. A large and sturdy person.
Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
Equipment with legs. In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.
Equipment with legs. A frame with legs, used to support something.
a clothes horse; a sawhorse
A type of equipment. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
A type of equipment. A breastband for a leadsman.
A type of equipment. An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
A type of equipment. A jackstay.
A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia ).
The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
Horseplay; tomfoolery.
A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós? Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-? Proto-Indo-European *wers- Proto-Indo-European *-ḗn Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā Proto-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šāder.? Proto-Germanic *hrussą Proto-West Germanic *hross Old English hors Middle English hors English horse From Middle English hors, horse, ors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car and carrus. Cognates Cognate with Scots horse (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Cimbrian ross (“horse”), Dutch hors, ros (“horse”), German Ross, Roß (“horse”), Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk hors (“horse, mare”), Faroese hors, ross (“horse”), Icelandic hross (“horse”), Swedish russ (“horse”); also Cornish karr (“car”), Welsh car (“car; cart, wagon”), Latin currus (“car, chariot; wagon, wain”), Ancient Greek ἐπίκουρος (epíkouros, “aiding, assisting; defending; ally, helper; hireling”), Tocharian A kursär (“vehicle; mile”), Tocharian B kwarsär (“course; path”).
Synonym of horse around.
To play mischievous pranks on.
To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
To get on horseback.
To sit astride of; to bestride.
To copulate with (a mare).
To take or carry on the back.
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished. To flog.
To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
To urge at work tyrannically.
To charge for work before it is finished.
To cheat at schoolwork by means of a translation or other illegitimate aid.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English horsen, from Old English horsian (“to horse, provide with horses”) and ġehorsian (“to horse, set or mount on a horse, supply with horses”), from the noun (see above).
Heroin (drug).
Where this word comes from
Unknown; probably originally criminals' cant based on the initial letter of heroin and horse.
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