horse
/hoɹs/ sustantivo A1En español: caballo, arpa, caballuno, caballar
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. · A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.· She loved taming horses on Saturday.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses. · These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
- A male horse, as opposed to a mare.
- Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category). · We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
- The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse. · Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
- A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A large and sturdy person. · Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
Plural horses
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All the giants leaped to horse
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut.
He was blockaded in a tangled mess of vehicles and horses.
I got the express wagons and cabs mostly for $5; but the trucks and two-horse teams mostly raised me to $10.
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