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   horse

   /hɔːs/

   noun

   • 1. a large plant-eating domesticated mammal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads.
   • ▪ an adult male horse; a stallion or gelding.
   • ▪ a wild mammal of the horse family.
   • ▪ cavalry: "forty horse and sixty foot"
   • 2. a frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse.
   • ▪ a horizontal bar, rail, or rope in the rigging of a sailing ship.
   • ▪ short for vaulting horse
   • 3. a unit of horsepower: informal "a 63-horse engine"
   • 4. heroin. informal
   • 5. an obstruction in a vein.

   verb

   • 1. provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses: "Leary and his men were horsed and equipped but the war ended before they could be sent to Cuba"

   Word Origin Old Englishhors, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ros and German Ross.

   Derivatives

   • 1. horse-like adjective

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   What does horse stand for?

   • For other uses, see Horse (disambiguation). The horse ( Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus.

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   Is a horse a mammal?

   • The horse ( Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, close to Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today.

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   What is a male horse called?

   • Hoof of a horse. A mature male horse is called a stallion, the female a mare. A stallion used for breeding is known as a stud. A castrated stallion is commonly called a gelding. Formerly, stallions were employed as riding horses, while mares were kept for breeding purposes only. Geldings were used for work and as ladies’ riding horses.

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   What is horse noun?

   • to put or do things in the wrong order used to say that nothing would persuade somebody to go somewhere or do something they do not want to do (saying) you can give somebody the opportunity to do something, but you cannot force them to do it if they do not want to Definition of horse noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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   The horse ( Equus ferus caballus) [2] [3] is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, close to Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today.

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   Horse definition: a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.. See examples of HORSE used in a sentence.

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   Horses are very strong and fast, which is why humans have domesticated them for thousands of years — horses can be helpful on farms, for riding, and for pulling wagons and carts. Some people ride horses simply as a hobby, while others race them in competitions.

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   5 days ago · Horse is a hoofed herbivorous mammal of the family Equidae, with a single species and many varieties. Learn about its history, anatomy, uses, and cultural significance from Britannica.

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