horses
马匹,马儿,马,匹马
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Definitions
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plural hors·es, horse.
- : a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- : a fully mature male animal of this type; stallion.
- : any of several perissodactyls belonging to the family Equidae, including the horse, zebra, donkey, and ass, having a thick, flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck and bearing the weight on only one functioning digit, the third, which is widened into a round or spade-shaped hoof.
- : something on which a person rides, sits, or exercises, as if astride the back of such an animal: rocking horse.
- : Also called trestle. a frame, block, etc., with legs, on which something is mounted or supported.
- : Gymnastics. vaulting horse. pommel horse.
- : Carpentry. carriage.
- : soldiers serving on horseback; cavalry: a thousand horse.
- : Slang. a man; fellow.
- : Often horses. Informal. horsepower.
- : horses, Slang. the power or capacity to accomplish something, as by having enough money, personnel, or expertise: Our small company doesn't have the horses to compete against a giant corporation.
- : Chess Informal. a knight.
- : Slang. a crib, translation, or other illicit aid to a student's recitation; trot; pony.
- : Mining. a mass of rock enclosed within a lode or vein.
- : Nautical. traveler.
- : Shipbuilding. a mold of a curved frame, especially one used when the complexity of the curves requires laying out at full size.
- : Slang. heroin.
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horsed, hors·ing.
- : to provide with a horse or horses.
- : to set on horseback.
- : to set or carry on a person's back or on one's own back.
- : Carpentry. to cut notches for steps into.
- : to move with great physical effort or force: It took three men to horse the trunk up the stairs.
- : Slang. to make the target of boisterous jokes.to perform boisterously, as a part or a scene in a play.
- : Nautical. to caulk with a hammer.to work or haze cruelly or unfairly.
- : Archaic. to place on a person's back, in order to be flogged.
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horsed, hors·ing.
- : to mount or go on a horse.
- : to be in heat.
- : Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse.
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- : of, for, or pertaining to a horse or horses: the horse family; a horse blanket.
- : drawn or powered by a horse or horses.
- : mounted or serving on horses: horse troops.
- : unusually large.
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- : horse around, Slang. to fool around; indulge in horseplay.
Phrases
- horse around
- horse of a different color, a
- horse sense
- horse trading
- back the wrong horse
- beat a dead horse
- cart before the horse
- change horses in midstream
- charley horse
- dark horse
- eat like a bird (horse)
- from the horse's mouth
- hold one's horses
- if wishes were horses
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- on one's high horse
- war horse
- wild horses couldn't drag
- work like a beaver (horse)
- you can lead a horse to water
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
In place of horses, underclassmen would pull the field pieces around the drill ground.
Jolly somehow finds the time to also manage a restaurant and help kids who have Autism and Down syndrome ride horses.
Several horses in Hendra had fallen ill and died, followed by one of their trainers.
You have to have courage and endurance, like certain kinds of horses [laughs].
But before the national pundits and prognosticators write off the Kentucky contest, they should hold their horses.
When we'd finished, one of the hunters rounded up the horses and we caught our nags and saddled them.
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.
If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
Our talk ranged from the Panhandle to the Canada line, while our horses jogged steadily southward.