horse
IPA: hˈɔrs
noun
- 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.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- A component of certain games.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- (historical) 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.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (nautical) Type of equipment.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- A jackstay.
- (mining) 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.
- (US) 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 Wikipedia.Wikipedia).
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
- (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
- (dated, slang, among students) Horseplay; tomfoolery.
- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.
- The seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
- Alternative spelling of horse (“variant of basketball”) [A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.]
verb
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (obsolete) To get on horseback.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (of a male horse) 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.
- (by extension) To flog.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (transitive, dated) To urge at work tyrannically.
- (intransitive, dated) To charge for work before it is finished.
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Examples of "horse" in Sentences
- Horses are dragging a cart.
- Horses snicker in the morning.
- The horse is loping on the street.
- The horse is to be responsive and quiet.
- Dogs, horses, and cows are all vertebrates.
- A horse is a horse, and a sumptuary law is a sumptuary law.
- The wild horse race begins with untamed horses in the chutes.
- A horse scraper is used to remove the sweat from the coat of the horse.
- The carousel consisted of hand carved horses and animals standing two abreast.
- Horses or other draft animals were harnessed in single file to haul the limber.
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