name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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name
The seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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noun
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
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noun
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
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noun
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
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Usage: sometimes, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A component of certain games.
The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
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Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
Topics: board-games, chess, games
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noun
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A component of certain games.
A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: board-games, games, xiangqi
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noun
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A large and sturdy person.
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noun
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
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Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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Synonyms: Morgan's mule, Spanish donkey
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noun
Equipment with legs.
In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
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noun
Equipment with legs.
A frame with legs, used to support something.
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noun
A type of equipment.
A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A type of equipment.
A breastband for a leadsman.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A type of equipment.
An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A type of equipment.
A jackstay.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, mining
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noun
An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia ).
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noun
The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
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noun
A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
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noun
A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
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Usage: countable, dated, slang, uncountable
Qualifier: among students
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noun
Horseplay; tomfoolery.
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Usage: countable, dated, slang, uncountable
Qualifier: among students
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A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
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Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
Topics: card-games, poker
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noun
Heroin (drug).
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Usage: slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: H, smack, Big H, boy, brown sugar, brown, bujj, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dog food, dope, dugee, henry, heroin, horse, junk, muck, mud, ron, scag, spider, sugar, whiteboy, white lady, yam yam
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noun
A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.
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Usage: uncountable
Topics: card-games, games, poker
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noun
Alternative form of horse (“a variant of basketball”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, basketball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
Synonym of horse around.
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Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: horse about, horse around
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verb
To play mischievous pranks on.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To get on horseback.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
To sit astride of; to bestride.
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verb
To copulate with (a mare).
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verb
To take or carry on the back.
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verb
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
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verb
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
To flog.
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verb
To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
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Usage: informal
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verb
To urge at work tyrannically.
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verb
To charge for work before it is finished.
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verb
To cheat at schoolwork by means of a translation or other illegitimate aid.
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noun
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Equus caballus
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Broader terms: equine, equid
Narrower terms: roan, stablemate, stable companion, gee-gee, eohippus, dawn horse, mesohippus, protohippus, male horse, mare, female horse, saddle horse, riding horse, mount, pony, polo pony, wild horse, hack, jade, nag, plug, racehorse, race horse, bangtail, steeplechaser, stalking-horse, harness horse, workhorse, post horse, post-horse, poster, pacer, stepper, high stepper, chestnut, liver chestnut, bay, sorrel, palomino, pinto
noun
a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
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Synonyms: gymnastic horse
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Broader terms: gymnastic apparatus, exerciser
Narrower terms: pommel horse, side horse, vaulting horse, long horse, buck
noun
a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
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Synonyms: knight
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Broader terms: chessman, chess piece
noun
a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
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Synonyms: sawhorse, sawbuck, buck
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Broader terms: framework
Narrower terms: trestle
noun
troops trained to fight on horseback
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: cavalry, horse cavalry
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Broader terms: military personnel, soldiery, troops
verb
provide with a horse or horses
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Broader terms: provide, supply, ply, cater
Narrower terms: remount
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós? Proto-Indo-European *h1wers-? Proto-Indo-European *wers- Proto-Indo-European *-ḗn Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā Proto-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šāder.? Proto-Germanic *hrussą Proto-West Germanic *hross Old English hors Middle English hors English horse From Middle English hors, horse, ors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car and carrus. Cognates Cognate with Scots horse (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Cimbrian ross (“horse”), Dutch hors, ros (“horse”), German Ross, Roß (“horse”), Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk hors (“horse, mare”), Faroese hors, ross (“horse”), Icelandic hross (“horse”), Swedish russ (“horse”); also Cornish karr (“car”), Welsh car (“car; cart, wagon”), Latin currus (“car, chariot; wagon, wain”), Ancient Greek ἐπίκουρος (epíkouros, “aiding, assisting; defending; ally, helper; hireling”), Tocharian A kursär (“vehicle; mile”), Tocharian B kwarsär (“course; path”).
Unknown; probably originally criminals' cant based on the initial letter of heroin and horse.
Initialism of Texas hold 'em, Omaha eight or better, razz, seven-card stud, and seven card stud eight or better.
From Middle English horsen, from Old English horsian (“to horse, provide with horses”) and ġehorsian (“to horse, set or mount on a horse, supply with horses”), from the noun (see above).
Across languages
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