warhorse
IPA: wˈɔrhɔrs
noun
- (historical, military) Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armoured knight.
- (figurative, informal) An experienced person who has been through many battles, situations or contests; someone who has given long service.
- (theater, music) A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.
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Examples of "warhorse" in Sentences
- A knight's warhorse was trained to bite and kick.
- Alvarado was clad in armor and mounted on his warhorse.
- Mares would be fiery and warhorse type, also, I would think.
- But I still have so spell in my spellbook to summon warhorse.
- Now that said, it is NOT a big old warhorse like an old Guild.
- That warhorse mascot has to have a citable source floating around.
- Warhorse were a band formed by former Deep Purple bassist Nick Simper.
- He got the warhorse morph in one of the Megamorphs, the third one I believe.