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horse
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hô(r)s, IPA(key): /h??s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h??s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
- Homophone: hoarse (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hruss? (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *?r?sós (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run”). Cognate with North Frisian hors (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Dutch ros, hors (“horse”), German Ross (“horse”), Danish hors (“horse”), Swedish russ, hors (“horse”), Icelandic hross, hors (“horse”).
Noun
horse (plural horses)
- Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
- A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- Synonyms: Morgan's mule, Spanish donkey
- A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- 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.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- 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
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
- 1887, William Clark Russell, A Book for the Hammock
- (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.
- (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
- 1962, Cape Fear, 00:15:20
- Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
- 1962, Cape Fear, 00:15:20
- (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 Wikipedia.Wikipedia ).
- (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
- (dated, slang, among students) horseplay; tomfoolery
Usage notes
The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and/or coarse.
Synonyms
- (animal): caple (obsolete or dialectal), cheval (obsolete), horsie, nag, prad, steed; see also Thesaurus:horse
- (gymnastic equipment): pommel horse, vaulting horse
- (chess piece): knight
- (illegitimate study aid): dobbin, pony, trot
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Maori: h?iho
- ? Quiripi: hosses (from the plural horses)
Translations
See also
- Horse-related English words
Etymology 2
From Middle English horsen, from Old English horsian (“to horse, provide with horses”) and ?ehorsian (“to horse, set or mount on a horse, supply with horses”), from the noun (see above).
Verb
horse (third-person singular simple present horses, present participle horsing, simple past and past participle horsed)
- (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
- 1989, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
- "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
- "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
- 1943, Ted W. Lawson and Bob Consodine, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
- I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.
- 1989, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (obsolete) To get on horseback.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, "Cupid's Arrows":
- He horsed himself well.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, "Cupid's Arrows":
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Cymbeline, II. i. 203:
- Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Cymbeline, II. i. 203:
- (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
- c. 1667, Samuel Butler, Characters
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; (hence) to flog.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.20:
- [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.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.20:
- (transitive, dated) To urge at work tyrannically.
- (intransitive, dated) To charge for work before it is finished.
Derived terms
- horse around
- unhorse
Translations
Etymology 3
Unknown
Noun
horse (uncountable)
- (uncountable, slang) Heroin (drug).
- Alright, mate, got any horse?
Synonyms
- (heroin): H, smack
Translations
Further reading
- horse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- RSeOH, Rohes, Shore, hoers, hoser, shero, shoer, shore
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hors, from Proto-West Germanic *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hruss? (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *kers- (“run”).
Noun
horse
- Alternative form of hors
Etymology 2
From Old English *h?rs, variant of h?s.
Adjective
horse
- Alternative form of hos
Etymology 3
Verb
horse
- Alternative form of horsen (“to provide with a horse”)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
horse f (definite singular horsa, indefinite plural horser, definite plural horsene)
- a mare
- (derogatory) frivolous woman
Verb
horse (present tense horsar, past tense horsa, past participle horsa, passive infinitive horsast, present participle horsande, imperative hors)
- (intransitive, of a stallion) to run around amongst the mares
- (intransitive, of a man) to run around, chiefly drunkenly
Scots
Etymology
From Old English hors.
Noun
horse (plural horse)
- horse
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swayback
English
Etymology
sway +? back
Noun
swayback (countable and uncountable, plural swaybacks)
- An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse.
- An animal with such excessive sagging.
Derived terms
- swaybacked
Translations
Anagrams
- backways, waybacks
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