Definition of HORSE

horse

Meanings

Plural: horses

Noun

  • solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
  • a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
  • troops trained to fight on horseback
    • "500 horse led the attack"
  • a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
  • a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
  • A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
  • Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
  • A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
  • Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
  • A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
  • Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
  • A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
  • A component of certain games.
  • The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
  • A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
  • A component of certain games.
  • A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
  • A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
  • A large and sturdy person.
  • A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
  • A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
  • A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
  • Equipment with legs.
  • 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.
  • Equipment with legs.
  • A frame with legs, used to support something.
  • A type of equipment.
  • A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
  • A type of equipment.
  • A breastband for a leadsman.
  • A type of equipment.
  • An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
  • A type of equipment.
  • A jackstay.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
  • A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
  • A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
  • Horseplay; tomfoolery.
  • A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
  • Heroin (drug).

Verb

  • provide with a horse or horses
  • Synonym of horse around.
  • To play mischievous pranks on.
  • To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
  • To get on horseback.
  • To sit astride of; to bestride.
  • To copulate with (a mare).
  • To take or carry on the back.
  • To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
  • To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
  • To flog.
  • To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
  • To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
  • To urge at work tyrannically.
  • To charge for work before it is finished.
  • To cheat at schoolwork by means of a translation or other illegitimate aid.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car and carrus. Cognate with North Frisian hors (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Dutch ros, hors (“horse”), German Ross (“horse”), Danish hors (“horse”), Swedish russ, hors (“horse”), Icelandic hross, hors (“horse”).

Synonyms

Big H, boy, brown, brown sugar, buck, bujj, caple, cavalry, cheval, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dobbin, dog food, dope, equine, Equus caballus, gymnastic horse, H, heroin, horse, horse about, horse around, horse cavalry, horseflesh, horsemeat, horsy, junk, keffel, knight, Morgan's mule, muck, mud, nag, pommel horse, pony, prad, ron, sawbuck, sawhorse, scag, smack, Spanish donkey, spider, steed, sugar, trot, vaulting horse, white lady, whiteboy, widge, yam yam

Scrabble Score: 8

horse is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
horse is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
horse is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

horse is a valid Words With Friends word