horseleech

/hawrs-leech/US // ˈhɔrsˌlitʃ //UK // (ˈhɔːsˌliːtʃ) //

马勒戈壁,马勒克,马勒戈壁的,马利克

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a large leech, as Haemopis marmoratis, that infests the mouth and nasal passages of horses.

The door of the caf was guarded by two young and unbeautiful descendants of the horseleech's daughters.
Morales had, however, made his horseleech nature tolerably plain already, and Appleby decided to stand firm.
Horseleech, to be candid, far from being a clever fellow, is one of the most barren rascals on record.
Here is expressed the extremity of necessitous extortions, figured in the ancient fable of the full and the hungry horseleech.
She is become the horseleech's daughter and my mill doesn't grind fast enough to suit her.