white horse
IPA: wˈaɪthˈɔrs
noun
- (countable) Any of several horse-shaped chalk figures in England, such as the Uffington White Horse.
- (countable) A wave that is blown by the wind such that its crest is broken up and appears white and foamy; a whitecap.
- (slang) A recreational drug in the form of white powder: heroin or cocaine.
- A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, horse.
- Former name of Whitehorse.
whitehorse
IPA: wˈaɪthɔrs
Root Word: Whitehorse
noun
- The capital city of Yukon, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after a tavern.
- A census-designated place in Dewey County, South Dakota, United States, named after a chieftain.
- The City of Whitehorse, a local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, named after the White Horse Inn, a former tavern.
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Examples of "whitehorse" in Sentences
Examples of "white-horse" in Sentences
- The Republicans 'knight-on-a - white-horse is basically a tobaco lobbyist with a tv gig.
- After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer.
- First comes white-horse, so called, which is obtained from the tapering part of the fish, and also from the thicker portions of his flukes.
- This substance was contained in spongy cells held together by layers of dense white fibre, exceedingly tough and elastic, and called by the whalers "white-horse."
- Godfrey the thane, by the only daughter of the house of Aluric, whose forefathers held the white-horse banner at the fatal fight where our shield was broken and our sword shivered.
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