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prad

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A horse.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, dated, informal

Examples

  • 1893, Ernest Favenc, "Bunthorp's Decease" in Tales of the Austral Tropics, London: Osgood, MacIlvaine & Co., 1894, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600691h.html "Not a bad sort of a prad that brown one," he remarked; "looks a little gone in the near fore-leg."

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History

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch paard (“horse”). Doublet of palfrey.