Meaning of river horse | Babel Free

Definitions

Hippopotamus.

dated, uncommon

Equivalents

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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