"horsehair" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: horsehairs [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English hors her, horshere, hors-here, hors heer (also hors-hore), equivalent to horse + hair. Compare Old Norse hross-hár (“horsehair”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|hors her}} Middle English hors her, {{af|en|horse|hair}} horse + hair, {{cog|non|hross-hár|t=horsehair}} Old Norse hross-hár (“horsehair”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} horsehair (countable and uncountable, plural horsehairs)
  1. The hair of a horse, especially from the mane and tail, used for upholstery. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Hair Translations (hair of a horse, from its mane or tail): конски косъм (konski kosǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 馬毛 (Chinese Mandarin), 马毛 (mǎmáo) (Chinese Mandarin), žíně [feminine] (Czech), jouhi (Finnish), crin [masculine] (French), Rosshaar [neuter] (German), lószőr (Hungarian), jouhi (Ingrian), crine [masculine] (Italian), 馬毛 (umage) (alt: うまげ) (Japanese), Päerdshoer [neuter] (Luxembourgish), ко́њско вла́кно (kónjsko vlákno) [neuter] (Macedonian), hors her (Middle English), końskie włosie [neuter] (Polish), ко́нский во́лос (kónskij vólos) [masculine] (Russian), tagel [neuter] (Swedish), yele (Turkish), at yelesi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-horsehair-en-noun-uH-mxLlv Disambiguation of Hair: 51 49 Disambiguation of 'hair of a horse, from its mane or tail': 82 18
  2. A fabric made from this. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Fabrics, Fibers, Hair Synonyms: haircloth
    Sense id: en-horsehair-en-noun-XTvOMkLM Disambiguation of Fabrics: 15 85 Disambiguation of Fibers: 20 80 Disambiguation of Hair: 51 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Luxembourgish translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Middle English translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 91 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 93 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Ingrian translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Luxembourgish translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Middle English translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: horsehair shirt, horsehair worm, horsehairy

Inflected forms

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  "word": "horsehair"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.