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horse

(n): solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

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(n): hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck

(n): a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

(n): sports equipment used in gymnastic exercises

(n): troops trained to fight on horseback

(n): soldiers collectively

(n): a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

(n): a structure supporting or containing something

(n): a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

(n): any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess

(v): provide with a horse or horses

(v): give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance

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6 months ago SonofGroucho said:

See also: "horse sense".

7 months ago skipvia said:

Dudley Do-Right. See A Horse is a Horse

7 months ago Treeseed said:

a game played with a basketball

9 months ago chained_bear said:

"Horses have always been the most reluctant quadruped passengers (aboard ships), with good reason: they are terrible sailors. Unable to vomit, they exhibited the extent of their suffering by an attack of what handlers called the 'gapes.'" (John Maxstone-Graham, The Only Way to Cross, NY: Macmillan, 1972, p. 332)

See also horse storm. Weirdness.

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