Meaning of river horse | Babel Free

Definitions

Hippopotamus.

dated, uncommon

Examples

“The river-horse feeds upon the herbage of the Nile, and the behemoth is said to eat grass like an ox.”

“Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder.”

“It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.”

“Here, before a feast that would prick the dead with appetite, were shapes of beasts with heads of men, asses, elephants, bulls, horses, swine, foxes, riverhorses, dromedaries; […]”

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