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▸ noun: Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
▸ noun: (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
▸ noun: (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
▸ noun: A component of certain games.
▸ noun: (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
▸ noun: (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
▸ noun: (slang) A large and sturdy person.
▸ noun: (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
▸ noun: Equipment with legs.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A frame with legs, used to support something.
▸ noun: (nautical) Type of equipment.
▸ noun: A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
▸ noun: A breastband for a leadsman.
▸ noun: An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
▸ noun: A jackstay.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (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).
▸ noun: (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
▸ noun: (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
▸ noun: (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
▸ noun: (dated, slang, among students) Horseplay; tomfoolery.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Synonym of horse around
▸ verb: (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
▸ verb: (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To get on horseback.
▸ verb: To sit astride of; to bestride.
▸ verb: (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
▸ verb: To take or carry on the back.
▸ verb: To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
▸ verb: (by extension) To flog.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
▸ verb: (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
▸ verb: (transitive, dated) To urge at work tyrannically.
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To charge for work before it is finished.
▸ noun: (slang) Heroin (drug).
▸ noun: A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.
▸ noun: The seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
▸ noun: Alternative spelling of horse (“variant of basketball”) [A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.]
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