"horse-block" meaning in English

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      "form": "horse-blocks",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A platform or steps used for getting on or off a horse or, in modern times, sometimes a vehicle."
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          "horse",
          "horse"
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          "vehicle",
          "vehicle"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "horse block"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "platform or steps used for getting on or off a horse",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ardane markee"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "horse-block"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.",
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        "A platform or steps used for getting on or off a horse or, in modern times, sometimes a vehicle."
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          "horse",
          "horse"
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          "vehicle",
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    {
      "word": "horse block"
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "platform or steps used for getting on or off a horse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ardane markee"
    }
  ],
  "word": "horse-block"
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