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- English Word Horse Definition A breastband for a leadsman.
- English Word Horse Definition An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.
- English Word Horse Definition A jackstay.
- English Word Horse Definition To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.
- English Word Horse Definition To sit astride of; to bestride.
- English Word Horse Definition To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.
- English Word Horse Definition To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.
- English Word Horse Definition To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
- English Word Horse Definition To get on horseback.
- English Word Horse Guards Definition A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign.
- English Word Horse power Definition The power which a horse exerts.
- English Word Horse power Definition A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second, etc.
- English Word Horse power Definition A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor.
- English Word Horse-chestnut Definition The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.
- English Word Horse-chestnut Definition The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.
- English Word Horse-drench Definition A dose of physic for a horse.
- English Word Horse-drench Definition The appliance by which the dose is administred.
- English Word Horse-jockey Definition A professional rider and trainer of race horses.
- English Word Horse-jockey Definition A trainer and dealer in horses.
- English Word Horse-leech Definition A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.