horse
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
How often you will meet it
Rank 460 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 44,771 times across 191,625 chapters — 0.021% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times also: Equus caballus
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs also: gymnastic horse
- troops trained to fight on horseback also: cavalry, horse cavalry 500 horse led the attack
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed also: sawhorse, sawbuck, buck
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) also: knight
verb
- provide with a horse or horses
horse in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A roan horse is of a reddish colour, with white hairs thickly interspersed.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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Arch had interested Colonel Pendleton in his "wild lands" at a horse sale in the Blue-grass.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
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Denis laughed, and gave the horse a cut that brought him quickly abreast of her retreating figure.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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During this colloquy the traveller had mounted his servant's horse, and now followed in the wake of the Persians.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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The star is a horse that pranced about the stage in the most natural manner possible, carefully avoiding the orchestra.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1