Horse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

   “A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.”

2. isim Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
3. isim Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.

   “These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.”

4. isim Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

   “We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.”

5. isim The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.

   “Now just remind me how the horse moves again?”

6. isim A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
7. isim A large and sturdy person.

   “Every linebacker they have is a real horse.”

8. isim A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
9. isim 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.

   “She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.”

10. isim A frame with legs, used to support something.

    “a clothes horse; a sawhorse”

11. isim A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

    “The old “horse” has made way for the “foot-rope", though we still retain the term “Flemish horse" for the short foot-rope at the top-sail yard-arms”

12. isim A breastband for a leadsman.
13. isim An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
14. isim A jackstay.
15. isim 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.
16. isim 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 WikipediaWikipedia ).
17. isim The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.

    “She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.”

18. isim A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.

    “This "horse" (a slang term for prison officers who smuggle contraband into the institution) was probably able "to stay in business" for such a long time because he only "packed" for powerful, trustworthy prisoners […]”

19. isim A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
20. isim Horseplay; tomfoolery.
21. fiil Synonym of horse around.

    “"Stop horsing, and guess how many kids!"”

22. fiil To play mischievous pranks on.

    “Was someone horsing her? Was it Josh's idea of a joke? For some moments she sat, plump hands with long pointed pink nails, toying with the envelope. Then she went to the telephone and called[…]”

23. fiil To provide with a horse; supply horses for.

    “being better horsed, outrode me”

24. fiil To get on horseback.

    “He horsed himself well.”

25. fiil To sit astride of; to bestride.

    “Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.”

26. fiil To copulate with (a mare).
27. fiil To take or carry on the back.

    “keepers, horsing the deer”

28. fiil To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.

    “So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.”

29. fiil To flog.

    “[N]otwithstanding the intercession of his governor, who begged earnestly that his punishment might be mitigated, our unfortunate hero was publickly horsed, in terrorem of all whom it might concern.”

30. fiil To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.

    “[A] country-ship from China to Bombay, standing into the strait at noon with a strong tide and scant wind, stood too near Pedro Branco before tacking, and was totally lost, by the tide horsing her upon the rock whilst in stays.”