horse vs hoarse
Definitions
noun
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
verb
- provide with a horse or horses
Examples
He said nothing as he took his horse's reins and mounted up, the pain causing sparks to flash behind his eyes and his vision to fuzz a little around the edges.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
Definitions
adjective
- deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
Examples
Although he had not howled once, his snarling and growling, combined with his thirst, had hoarsened his throat and dried the mucous membranes of his mouth so that he was incapable, except under the sheerest provocation, of further sound.
hoarse cries
My voice is hoarse and croaky, my hands hurt and I'm still shaking!
