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   Horse

   /hôrs/

   

   noun

   • 1. a large plant-eating domesticated mammal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads.
   • ▪ an adult male horse; a stallion or gelding.
   • ▪ a wild mammal of the horse family.
   • ▪ cavalry: "forty horse and sixty foot"
   • 2. a frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse.
   • ▪ a horizontal bar, rail, or rope in the rigging of a sailing ship for supporting something.
   • ▪ short for pommel horse or vaulting horse
   • 3. a unit of horsepower: informal "the huge 63-horse 701-cc engine"
   • 4. heroin. informal
   • 5. an obstruction in a vein.

   verb

   • 1. provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses: "Leary and his men were horsed and equipped but the war ended before they could be sent to Cuba"

   Word Origin Old Englishhors, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ros and German Ross.

   Derivatives

   • 1. horse-like adjective

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