snowhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowhorses
Etymology: From snow + horse.
Senses: examples: text: One sees instead a small snowhorse / Made by children one dull afternoon, / Though now it gleams like Triton’s foal / New-born from the unblemished foam.
ref: 1958, Alan Brilliant, editor, Pan: A Quarterly of Poetry, New York: Igal Roodenko:
text: Little boy, house, Christmas trees, and snowman riding a snowhorse are depicted.
ref: 1991, Clara Johnson Scroggins, Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments: A Collector’s Guide, Hallmark Cards, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Other times, we’d make snowdragons, and snowhorses and a big pile of snowballs.
ref: 1992, Isabelle Knockwood, Gillian Thomas, Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Roseway Publishing, →ISBN, page 72:
text: He’d helped them build a snowman this winter. With a snowhorse.
ref: 2002, Doranna Durgin, Changespell Legacy (The Changespell Saga, Book III), Blue Hound Visions, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: Sometime in 1977 my father takes a series of photographs of me sitting on a snowhorse we’d just made, which amuses my parents when they realize that I’m eating the snow.
ref: 2005, Joanne Merriam, The Glaze from Breaking, Stride Publications, →ISBN, page 56:
text: “Are they making snowmen?” asked Nora. / “Snowmen, snowwomen, snowmermaids, snowhorses—anything you can think of,” said Maddie.
ref: 2012, V. J. Chambers, Dancing Days (The Helicon Muses, Book One), Punk Rawk Books, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: A visual representation of a horse made from snow.
examples: text: Longview Farms, now operated by Loula Long Combs, better known throughout the United States as a breeder and exhibitor of thoroughbred snowhorses, is disposing of its 758 fine grade dairy cattle and replacing them with 700 beef cattle which need less attention.
ref: 1944 April 5, “Famous Dairy Herd Auctioned”, in The Parsons Sun, volume 72, number 219, Parsons, Kan., page 6, column 4:
text: Our boy Kent was with us. The mushy roads, the prancing snowhorses, the treacherous patches of ice on the highway, bothered him not a whit.
ref: 1951 January 27, Ray Nelson, “Beautiful Calm of the Children”, in The Herald-Journal, volume 42, number 43, Logan, Ut., page 2, column 1:
text: They are equipped to completely rebuild and overhaul your present motor and return it to your^([sic]) purring like a kitten and performing like a snowhorse.
ref: 1957 January 14, “Hydramatic Transmissions Due Check Every 8-10,000 Miles, Says Expert”, in Shreveport Journal, volume 63, Shreveport, La., page 8, column 3:
text: There are “snowhorses,” not otherwise described in detail, that might be more than just ordinary equines bred for service in the winter.
ref: 1983, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 65, page 40, column 1:
text: Lyeth led the way through the narrow, up-sloping passage called the Neck and into an exercise yard where snowhorses and summer horses were being groomed or exercised or simply admired.
ref: 1983, Marta Randall, The Sword of Winter, Timescape Books, →ISBN, page 73:
text: Profile of Kavanagh, who “has the constitution of a Tibetan snowhorse.” Comments on Kavanagh’s recovery from cancer:[…]
ref: 1996, Jonathan Allison, Patrick Kavanagh: A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: A horse bred or used for service in the winter.