English Dictionary

horse

/hɔːs/

noun

Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus. / (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.

The horse galloped across the field.

意味（1）

Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.

意味（2）

(zoology) 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.

意味（3）

(military, sometimes uncountable) 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.

意味（4）

(chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.

Now just remind me how the horse moves again?

意味（5）

(slang) A large and sturdy person.

Every linebacker they have is a real horse.

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(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

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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.

意味（8）

A frame with legs, used to support something.

a clothes horse; a sawhorse

意味（9）

A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

意味（10）

A breastband for a leadsman.

意味（11）

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

意味（12）

A jackstay.

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

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(mining) 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.

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(slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar

意味（15）

(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 Wikipedia.Wikipedia).

意味（16）

(uncountable) 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.

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(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.

This horse (a slang term for prison officers who smuggle contraband into the institution) was probably able to stay in business for such a long time because he only packed for powerful, trustworthy prisoners […]

意味（18）

(dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

意味（19）

(dated, slang, among students) Horseplay; tomfoolery.