horse
see also: HORSE, Horse
Pronunciation
HORSE
Etymology 1
Horse
Proper noun
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see also: HORSE, Horse
Pronunciation
- (horse-hoarse)
- (non-horse-hoarse)
From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors, from Proto-West Germanic *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-.
Nounhorse
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. - A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC ↗, page 16 ↗:
- Athelstan Arundel walked home […] , foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC ↗:
- The departure was not unduly prolonged. […] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
- 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.
- These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
- (military, sometimes, uncountable) 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.
- All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.
- A component of certain games.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- Synonyms: Morgan's mule, Spanish donkey
- 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.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- a clothes horse; a sawhorse
- 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.
- (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.
- 1887, William Clark Russell, A Book for the Hammock:
- The old “horse” has made way for the “foot-rope", though we still retain the term “Flemish horse" for the short foot-rope at the top-sail yard-arms
- (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 WikipediaWikipedia).
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
- 1980, Lee Harrington Bowker, Prison Victimization, page 117:
- This "horse" (a slang term for prison officers who smuggle contraband into the institution) was probably able "to stay in business" for such a long time because he only "packed" for powerful, trustworthy 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.
- (animal) caple (obsolete or dialectal), widge (poetic or archaic), cheval (obsolete), horsy, nag, prad, steed; see also Thesaurus:horse
- (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse
- (chess piece) knight
horseflesh, horsemeat - (illegitimate study aid) dobbin, pony, trot
- French: (♂♀) cheval, (♂) étalon, (♀) jument, (♂ offspring) poulain, (♀ offspring) pouliche
- German: (♂♀) Pferd, (♂♀) Ross, (old spelling) Roß, (♂♀ regional; inferior) Gaul, (♂) Hengst, Pferdehengst, (♀) Stute, Pferdestute, (♂ offspring) Hengstfohlen, (♂ offspring) Hengstfüllen, (♀ offspring) Stutenfohlen, Stutfohlen, (♀ offspring) Stutenfüllen, Stutfüllen, (♂♀ regional) Rössel, (♂♀ South German) Rössl, (♂♀ South German) Rössle
- Italian: cavallo
- Portuguese: cavalo, égua
- Russian: ло́шадь
- Spanish: caballo
- French: cavalerie
- German: Kavallerie, Reiterei
- Portuguese: cavalaria
- Spanish: caballería
- French: cheval d'arçons
- German: Pferd, Pauschenpferd, Seitpferd
- Italian: cavallina, cavallo
- Portuguese: cavalo
- Russian: конь
- Spanish: potro
- Italian: cavalletto
- Spanish: caballete
From Middle English horsen, from Old English horsian and ġehorsian, from the noun (see above).
Verbhorse (horses, present participle horsing; simple past and past participle horsed)
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around
- Synonyms: horse about, horse around
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- being better horsed, outrode me
- (obsolete) To get on horseback.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, Cupid's Arrows:
- He horsed himself well.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene i], line 203:
- Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
- To take or carry on the back.
- c. 1667, Samuel Butler, Characters:
- keepers, horsing the deer
- 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.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC ↗:
- [N]otwithstanding the intercession of his governor, who begged earnestly that his punishment might be mitigated, our unfortunate hero was publickly horsed, in terrorem of all whom it might concern.
- (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.
horse (uncountable)
- (slang) Heroin drug.
- Synonyms: H, smack, Thesaurus:heroin
- 1962, Cape Fear, 00:15:20:
- Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
HORSE
Etymology 1
Initialism of Texas hold 'em, Omaha eight or better, razz, seven-card stud, and seven card stud eight or better.
Nounhorse (uncountable)
- A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.
horse (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of horse
Horse
Proper noun
- The seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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