Meaning of horse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
2. A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.
   uncountable
3. Alternative spelling of horse (“variant of basketball”).
   alt-of, alternative, uncountable
4. A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
   countable, uncountable
5. Heroin (drug).
   slang, uncountable
6. knight
7. Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
   countable, uncountable
8. heroin
9. Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
   countable, uncountable
10. ox (strong clumsy person)
11. Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
    sometimes, uncountable
12. master, hotshot
13. A component of certain games.
    countable, informal, uncountable
14. The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
    countable, informal, uncountable
15. A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
    countable, uncountable
16. A large and sturdy person.
    countable, slang, uncountable
17. A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
    countable, historical, uncountable
18. Equipment with legs.
    countable, uncountable
19. 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.
    countable, uncountable
20. A frame with legs, used to support something.
    countable, uncountable
21. A type of equipment.
    countable, uncountable
22. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
    countable, uncountable
23. A breastband for a leadsman.
    countable, uncountable
24. An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
    countable, uncountable
25. A jackstay.
    countable, uncountable
26. 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.
    countable, uncountable
27. 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 WikipediaWikipedia).
    US, countable, uncountable
28. The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
    uncountable
29. A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
    countable, slang, uncountable
30. A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
31. Horseplay; tomfoolery.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
32. A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
    countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.”

“She loved taming horses on Saturday.”

“A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people.”

“Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.”

“The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.”

“These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.”

“We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.”

“Now just remind me how the horse moves again?”

“Every linebacker they have is a real horse.”

“She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.”

“a clothes horse; a sawhorse”

“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”

“But in all the wild tumult he noticed, and never forgot, the wicked, set little eye—something like a circus elephant's eye—of a whale that drove along almost level with the water, and, so he said, winked at him. Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters, and were towed half a mile ere their horses shook the line free.”

“She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.”

“This "horse" (a slang term for prison officers who smuggle contraband into the institution) was probably able "to stay in business" for such a long time because he only "packed" for powerful, trustworthy prisoners […]”

“Riccio nodded toward a boy across the floor and said, “See that kid? He’s on dope.” The boy was standing against a wall, staring vacantly at the dancers, his face fixed in a gentle, faraway smile. Every few seconds, he would wipe his nose with the back of his hand. “Man, that Jo-Jo!” Benny said. “He’s stoned all the time.” “What’s he on—horse? Riccio asked, meaning heroin. “Who knows with that creep?” Benny said. I asked Benny if any special kind of boy went in for dope. “The creeps,” he said. “You know, the goofballs.” He searched for a word. “The weak kids. Like Jo-Jo. There ain’t nothing the guys can’t do to him. Last week, we took his pants off and made him run right in the middle of the street without them.””

“Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar”

“It was to remember the juke box, the teasing, the dancing, the hard-on, the gang fights and gang bangs, his first set of drums—bought him by his father—his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse.”

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