(idiomatic, US) A muscle cramp, usually in the thigh or leg.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a poet and philosopher of the Roman Augustan Age (65–8 BCE). / A male given name from Latin

(countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. / (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.

The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.

A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.

Causing horror; terrible; shocking. / Tremendously bad.

An apparatus for gymnastic exercises with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright pommels, as hand grips, near the centre; held upright with adjustable legs.

(aviation) An instrument that displays the pitch and roll of an aircraft in flight by comparing its attitude to a gyroscopically-maintained indication of the flat horizon line.

(gymnastics) An apparatus with an upholstered body but no pommels; since about 2000 replaced with vault, also called vaulting table.

(idiomatic) On the telephone.