Wordie: Equuleus: Comments

Comment by chained_bear, 2 months ago

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:46:08 +0000

"... the Horse's Head, in astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, whose stars in Flamstead's {sic; John Flamsteed's} catalogue are ten."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 141

Comment by bilby, about 1 year ago

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:45:52 +0000

Wondering if it has anything to do with horses.

listed as a type of torture

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:34:58 +0000

"...with the victim hoisted and then dropped buttocks-first onto a cushion of whetted iron spikes..." p 108