Converse of object

• contain: Anthrax in Plaster Plaster usually contains horsehair and, before controls were introduced in 1895, could contain anthrax spores.

Adjective modifier

• real: The mane and tail should be of real horsehair, professionally cleaned and cured.

Modifies a noun

• wig: There are proposals to stop the Judges from wearing their horsehair wigs.

• sofa: There was a horsehair sofa which with short trousers was a bit like sitting on emery paper.

• factory: Stanley ran the horsehair factory in Newport Rd Cowes a short distance from Mill Hill station.

• mattress: Each child had its own bed with a horsehair mattress, pillow, three blankets and sheets.

• brush: Brush it out with a stiff horsehair brush and lay paper on top, then rub the back of the paper with a baren.

• cloth: In 1883, however, Middleton and Hovell were listed at this address as horsehair cloth manufacturers.