Meaning of covering horse | Babel Free

Definitions

A stud horse; a stallion kept as a stud.

Examples

“That year he earned extra income by keeping a covering horse, which he hired out to a number of local farmers.”

“...he is now fat and looks as grand as a covering horse.”

“...but if any owner or keeper of a covering horse, shall wilfully or negligently suffer said horse to run at large, out of the inclosed lands of said owner or keeper, any person may take up said horse, and carry him to his owner or keeper, for which he shall receive two dollars...”

“33. Sec. V. There shall be annually levied and collected upon all stallions or covering horses, let to mares for hire, a tax equal to the season, or price of one mare let to such stallion or covering horse.”

“The pedigree of Florizel, on the side of his dam, I have often seen, when he was a covering horse, but have no recollection of it.”

“...and I would as soon this day enter it in a stake of from one to five hundred dollars each, as to select from the season of any covering horse, no matter how many mares he had put to him.”

“"It is," says the record, "ordered, that there be levied a county revenue for the year A. D. 1830, on each horse, mule or ass over three years old, 31¼ cents; each covering horse, $2; on each work oxen, 15¾ cents; each pleasure carriage, 50 cents; on each brass clock, 50 cents; on each watch, 25 cents...”

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