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horsing

Variant of horse

noun pl. horses or horse

  1. a domesticated or wild, perissodactylous mammal (Equus caballus), raised in many breeds, having a large body and head, four usually long, thin legs, and a long, flowing tail: horses have been ridden, used to pull loads, etc. since ancient times
  2. the full-grown male of the horse; gelding or stallion
  3. anything like a horse in that a person sits, rides, or is carried on it
  4. a device, esp. a frame with legs, to support something; specif.,
    1. sawhorse
    2. a clotheshorse
  5. a man regarded as resembling a horse, as in having great strength or endurance: sometimes used as a general term of address
  6. Chess, Informal a knight
  7. Informal pony (sense )
  8. Slang
    1. horsepower (sense )
    2. horsepower (sense )
    3. heroin
  9. Gym. a padded block on legs, used for vaulting events
  10. Mil., Brit. mounted troops; cavalry
  11. Mining a mass of earth or rock inside a vein or coal seam

transitive verb horsed, horsing

  1. to supply with a horse or horses; put on horseback
    1. to place on a man's back or a wooden horse for flogging
    2. to flog
  2. Informal to shove; push
  3. Slang to subject to horseplay

intransitive verb

to mount or go on horseback

adjective

  1. of a horse or horses
  2. mounted on horses
  3. large, strong, or coarse of its kind: horse mackerel

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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