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UK
/hˈɔːs/
]
[ US /ˈhɔɹs/ ]
[ US /ˈhɔɹs/ ]
NOUN
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
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troops trained to fight on horseback
500 horse led the attack - 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
How To Use horse In A Sentence
- 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. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
- 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.
- A couple have told how they are lucky to be alive after a horse pulling their carriage ran amok and started a stampede during a holiday pleasure trip.
- He was trampled to death by a runaway horse.
- These are worn on the hocks and protect the horse from injuries.
- Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
- Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
- That said, the advisability of perching a laurel crown on a horse-riding hat, which tended to happen after the equestrianism events, may have to be addressed.
- Originating in the early 1970's, these were the workhorses of BC's big wood logging operations up and down the coastland.