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cockhorse

NOUN
  1. anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult)

How To Use cockhorse In A Sentence

  • Republican: but really in this country Republicans are fighting with the shadow of an old hat and a cockhorse. Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6
  • He may be a bit of a Republican: but really in this country Republicans are fighting with the shadow of an old hat and a cockhorse. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • That conqueror of circumstances will, the dullest soul may begin predicting, return on his cockhorse to favour and authority. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • I take Heaven to witness, after all my jesting, my heart is innocent, and the sports of my pen just like those of my infancy when I rode cockhorse on a stick. Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Edmond Scherer
  • Xenophon, in his Sympos. brings in Socrates as a principal actor, no man merrier than himself, and sometimes he would [3516] ride a cockhorse with his children. — equitare in arundine longa. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • 'But "the shadow of an old hat and a cockhorse": what does that mean?' Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6
  • _ (He horserides cockhorse, leaping in the saddle) _ The lady goes a pace a pace and the coachman goes a trot a trot and the gentleman goes a gallop a gallop a gallop a gallop. Ulysses
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