horse

Equus ferus caballus
Equus ferus caballus#Translingual

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.

These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.

We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.

(military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

Now just remind me how the horse moves again?

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

(xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.

Every linebacker they have is a real horse.

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

A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.

Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:

The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.

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.

a clothes horse; a sawhorse

A frame with legs, used to support something.

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

1887, William Clark Russell, A Book for the Hammock:

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

(nautical) A type of equipment.
A breastband for a leadsman.

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

But in all the wild tumult he noticed, and never forgot, the wicked, set little eye—something like a circus elephant's eye—of a whale that drove along almost level with the water, and, so he said, winked at him. Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters, and were towed half a mile ere their horses shook the line free.

1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:

(nautical) A type of equipment.
A jackstay.

(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.

H-O-R-S-E
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(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 WikipediaWikipedia).

She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46:

(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.

The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.

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 […]

1980, Lee Harrington Bowker, Prison Victimization, page 117:

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

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

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

(poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.

en-noun

horse (countable and uncountable, plural horses)

horses (plural)
hoss (alternative pronunciation-spelling regional)
hawss (alternative pronunciation-spelling regional)

a camel is a horse designed by a committee

a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

close the barn door after the horse has bolted

close the stable door after the horse has been stolen

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen

lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

shut the stable door after the horse has bolted

you can't put the shit back in the horse

zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

Sranan Tongo: asi

→ Maori: hōiho

→ Quiripi: hosses (from the plural horses)

магаре

frame with legs used for support or for holding objects

Also Horse harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See Horse-drawn vehicles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Note: Many of these were adapted into and/or gave their names to motor vehicle types

with the horse-drawn originals often being forgotten.

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”).


horse

"Stop horsing, and guess how many kids!"

1958, Gay Gaer Luce, Cross Your Heart, page 181:

"Why don't we stop horsing and get down to cases, Lou?" Mike Davey growled.

2019, Frank Kane, Red Hot Ice: A Johnny Liddell Mystery, page 117:

Was someone horsing her? Was it Josh's idea of a joke? For some moments she sat, plump hands with long pointed pink nails, toying with the envelope. Then she went to the telephone and called[…]

2015 March 7, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Palm Beach: A Novel, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 106:

(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.

being better horsed, outrode me

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

[…] and the same number from Russia for horsing her guns. During peace Turkey has 15,000 regular Cavalry; on mobilisation she should have 21,000, and 4,000 pack animals, without taking the irregular corps into consideration.

The result of one night's play was that the man who horsed the party had not one hoof to call his own when the morning's reckoning came to be made.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 303:

(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.

He horsed himself well.

Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.

1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 203:

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

keepers, horsing the deer

So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.

1963, Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone:

Faster than Lei could have believed, Omura blocked the exit, grabbed Kennedy's wrist and twisted it up behind her back, horsing her onto the hard metal chair. She sat the woman on it, slapping on a pair of cuffs.

2020 April 2, Toby Neal, Paradise Crime Mysteries Books 1-9, Neal Enterprises INC:

To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.

[N]otwithstanding the intercession of his governor, who begged earnestly that his punishment might be mitigated, our unfortunate hero was publickly horsed, in terrorem of all whom it might concern.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

[A] country-ship from China to Bombay, standing into the strait at noon with a strong tide and scant wind, stood too near Pedro Branco before tacking, and was totally lost, by the tide horsing her upon the rock whilst in stays.

1836, Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn, William Wallace, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, An Historical and Descriptive Account of China, page 216:

Cambria observing this again went about, and tacked towards the island, Sappho followed suit; after a short reach she again tacked and stood for the mark vessel, the tide horsing her well to the westward, but the Cambria stood on[…]

1870, Hunt's Yachting Magazine, page 266:

At 2:30 P.M. two gray-and-yellow tugs began horsing her out of her berth. Backing, she turned to starboard, past the end of the dock. Engine stopped, she carried sternway as her bow swung for the harbor mouth.

1981, Robert Roderick, The Greek Position: A Novel, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.

The Spaniards spend generations honing the subtle flavours of their delightful tapas and you're horsing it into your mouth as though it was a fried egg roll with brown sauce.'

2012 February 2, Anna Smith, To Tell the Truth: Rosie Gilmour 2, Quercus Publishing, →ISBN:

Get your laughing gear around some protein at every meal, spreading your intake over the course of the day rather than horsing it into you all in one go, at one mealtime. If you are training hard, try to consume around 25g protein[…]

2021 January 7, Paul Olima, Fit: Smash your goals and stay strong for life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.

(transitive, dated) To urge at work tyrannically.

(intransitive, dated) To charge for work before it is finished.

(dated, slang) To cheat at schoolwork by means of a translation or other illegitimate aid.

en-verb

horse (third-person singular simple present horses, present participle horsing, simple past and past participle horsed)

horses (present singular third-person)
horsing (participle present)
horsed (participle past)
horsed (past)
hoss (alternative pronunciation-spelling regional)
hawss (alternative pronunciation-spelling regional)

From Middle English horsen, from Old English horsian (“to horse, provide with horses”) and ġehorsian (“to horse, set or mount on a horse, supply with horses”), from the noun (see above).


horse

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

It was to remember the juke box, the teasing, the dancing, the hard-on, the gang fights and gang bangs, his first set of drums—bought him by his father—his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse.

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 6:

→ Swedish: horse

Unknown; probably originally criminals' cant based on the initial letter of heroin and horse.

hoss (alternative pronunciation-spelling regional)
hawss (alternative pronunciation-spelling regional)