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Noun: horse  hors
  1. Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
    - Equus caballus
     
  2. A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
    - gymnastic horse
     
  3. (military) troops trained to fight on horseback
    "500 horse led the attack";
    - cavalry, horse cavalry
     
  4. A framework for holding wood that is being sawed
    - sawhorse, sawbuck [N. Amer], buck
     
  5. (chess) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
    - knight
Verb: horse  hors
  1. Provide with a horse or horses

Sounds like: hoops, whoorse, ho

Derived forms: horsing, horses, horsed

Type of: cater, chess piece, chessman, equid, equine, exerciser, frame, framework, gymnastic apparatus, military personnel, ply, provide, soldiery, supply, troops

Part of: Equus, genus Equus

Encyclopedia: Horse, Przewalski's