horse

noun26

1. •
   a large animal that has hooves and a mane, and that is used for riding, for pulling carts and for farm work

   • A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
   • She loved taming horses on Saturday.
2. •
   Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   A male horse, as opposed to a mare.

   • ‘That’s not a mare; that’s a b--- horse!’ — 1933
5. •
   Equipment with legs.
6. •
   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.

   • She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.
7. •
   A frame with legs, used to support something.
8. •
   (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
9. •
   (slang) Heroin (drug).

   • Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar — 1962
10. •
    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.
11. •
    The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.

    • She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse. — 1946
12. •
    A component of certain games.
13. •
    A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
14. •
    (informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.

    • Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
15. •
    (slang) A large and sturdy person.

    • Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
16. •
    (US) 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 ).
17. •
    A type of equipment.
18. •
    A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

    • The old “horse” has made way for the “foot-rope", though we still retain the term “Flemish horse" for the short foot-rope at the top-sail yard-arms — 1887
19. •
    A breastband for a leadsman.
20. •
    An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
21. •
    A jackstay.
22. •
    (slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
23. •
    (slang, old-fashioned) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
24. •
    (slang, old-fashioned) Horseplay; tomfoolery.
25. •
    (slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
26. •
    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.

verb14

1. •
   To provide with a horse; supply horses for.

   • being better horsed, outrode me — 1596
2. •
   To play mischievous pranks on.

   • Was someone horsing her? Was it Josh's idea of a joke? For some moments she sat, plump hands with long pointed pink nails, toying with the envelope. Then she went to the telephone and called[…] — 2015
3. •
   Synonym of horse around.

   • "Stop horsing, and guess how many kids!" — 1958
4. •
   To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
5. •
   (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.

   • The Spaniards spend generations honing the subtle flavours of their delightful tapas and you're horsing it into your mouth as though it was a fried egg roll with brown sauce.' — 2012
6. •
   To copulate with (a mare).
7. •
   To sit astride of; to bestride.

   • Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him. — 1611
8. •
   To take or carry on the back.
9. •
   To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.

   • So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust. — 1963
10. •
    To flog.

    • [N]otwithstanding the intercession of his governor, who begged earnestly that his punishment might be mitigated, our unfortunate hero was publickly horsed, in terrorem of all whom it might concern. — 1751
11. •
    (old-fashioned) To urge at work tyrannically.
12. •
    (slang, old-fashioned) To cheat at schoolwork by means of a translation or other illegitimate aid.
13. •
    (old-fashioned) To charge for work before it is finished.
14. •
    (no longer used) To get on horseback.

    • He horsed himself well. — 1888

noun1

1. •
   A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.