horse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-?
Proto-Indo-European *wers-
Proto-Indo-European *-ḗn
Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn
Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā
Proto-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šāder.?
Proto-Germanic *hrussą
Proto-West Germanic *hross
Old English hors
Middle English hors
English horse
From Middle English hors, horse, ors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car and carrus.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots horse (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Cimbrian ross (“horse”), Dutch hors, ros (“horse”), German Ross, Roß (“horse”), Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk hors (“horse, mare”), Faroese hors, ross (“horse”), Icelandic hross (“horse”), Swedish russ (“horse”); also Cornish karr (“car”), Welsh car (“car; cart, wagon”), Latin currus (“car, chariot; wagon, wain”), Ancient Greek ἐπίκουρος (epíkouros, “aiding, assisting; defending; ally, helper; hireling”), Tocharian A kursär (“vehicle; mile”), Tocharian B kwarsär (“course; path”).
Inflected forms:
form: horses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: harse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
regional
form: hawss
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
regional
form: hoss
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
regional
form: horses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: horsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: horsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: horsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
She loved taming horses on Saturday.
A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people.
Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
gloss: A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
gloss: A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
pos: noun
tags: sometimes
uncountable
examples: We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
gloss: A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
gloss: A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
gloss: A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: Equipment with legs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.
gloss: Equipment with legs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a clothes horse; a sawhorse
gloss: A type of equipment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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
gloss: A type of equipment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of equipment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of equipment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But in all the wild tumult he noticed, and never forgot, the wicked, set little eye—something like a circus elephant's eye—of a whale that drove along almost level with the water, and, so he said, winked at him. Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters, and were towed half a mile ere their horses shook the line free.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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 ).
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.
gloss: A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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 […]
gloss: A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: Horseplay; tomfoolery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of horse around.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Stop horsing, and guess how many kids!"
"Why don't we stop horsing and get down to cases, Lou?" Mike Davey growled.
gloss: To play mischievous pranks on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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[…]
gloss: To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: being better horsed, outrode me
[…] and the same number from Russia for horsing her guns. During peace Turkey has 15,000 regular Cavalry; on mobilisation she should have 21,000, and 4,000 pack animals, without taking the irregular corps into consideration.
The result of one night's play was that the man who horsed the party had not one hoof to call his own when the morning's reckoning came to be made.
gloss: To get on horseback.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: He horsed himself well.
gloss: To sit astride of; to bestride.
pos: verb
examples: Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
gloss: To copulate with (a mare).
pos: verb
gloss: To take or carry on the back.
pos: verb
examples: keepers, horsing the deer
gloss: To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
pos: verb
examples: So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
Faster than Lei could have believed, Omura blocked the exit, grabbed Kennedy's wrist and twisted it up behind her back, horsing her onto the hard metal chair. She sat the woman on it, slapping on a pair of cuffs.
gloss: To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: [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.
gloss: To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [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.
Cambria observing this again went about, and tacked towards the island, Sappho followed suit; after a short reach she again tacked and stood for the mark vessel, the tide horsing her well to the westward, but the Cambria stood on[…]
At 2:30 P.M. two gray-and-yellow tugs began horsing her out of her berth. Backing, she turned to starboard, past the end of the dock. Engine stopped, she carried sternway as her bow swung for the harbor mouth.
gloss: To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: The Spaniards spend generations honing the subtle flavours of their delightful tapas and you're horsing it into your mouth as though it was a fried egg roll with brown sauce.'
Get your laughing gear around some protein at every meal, spreading your intake over the course of the day rather than horsing it into you all in one go, at one mealtime. If you are training hard, try to consume around 25g protein[…]
gloss: To urge at work tyrannically.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
gloss: To charge for work before it is finished.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
gloss: To cheat at schoolwork by means of a translation or other illegitimate aid.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
Synonyms: widge
cheval
horsy
nag
prad
steed
horseflesh
horsemeat
equine
horse
keffel
pommel horse
vaulting horse
Related words: equid
equine
gallop
canter
walk
trot
gee
haw
giddy-up
whoa
hoof
mane
tail
withers
knight
cavalier
cavalry
chivalry
neigh
whinny
tandem
team
chariot
cart
wagon
ungulate
Horse-related English words
bay
blaze
brindle
buckskin
cremello
dapple
grullo
palomino
perlino
pinto
rabicano
roan
sorrel
star
stocking
azoturia
colic
founder
laminitis
See Horse tack on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Also Horse harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
barb
bard
bellyband
bit
bit shank
blinders
blinkers
bosal
bradoon
breaststrap
breeching
bridle
browband
calk
calkin
caparison
cavesson
chambon
chamfron
cheekpiece
cinch
collar
criniere
crop
croupiere
crownpiece
crupper
curb bit
curb chain
curry comb
de Gogue
fiador
feedbag
flanchard
frentera
girth
gogue
hackamore
halter
hame
harness
hipposandal
headcollar
headstall
hindquarters
hobble
horse brass
horse blanket
horseshoe
horsewhip
kimberwicke
lance
latigo
lead
longe
longe line
martingale
mecate
mouthpiece
nosebag
numnah
noseband
overcheck
pelham
peytral
phalera
picket line
pommel
quirt
romal
rein
riding crop
rug
saber
saddle
saddlecloth
sallong
scimitar
shabrack
sidesaddle
singletree
snaffle
spur
stirrup
surcingle
swingletree
tack
terret
throatlatch
trace
trappings
twitch
whippletree
winker
harem
herd
mob
See Horse-drawn vehicles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Note: Many of these were adapted into and/or gave their names to motor vehicle types
with the horse-drawn originals often being forgotten.
ambulance
araba
barouche
battery wagon
berlin
bounder
brake
britchka
brougham
buckboard
buggy
cab
cabriolet
caisson
calash
calesin
Cape cart
cariole
carriage
carryall
cartela
chaise
charabanc
cidomo
clarence
coach
coachee
Concord coach
coupé
coupé-de-ville
croydon
curricle
dandy wagon
dennet
diligence
dogcart
dos-á-dos
drag
dray
droshky
ekka
fiacre
float
fly
four-in-hand
four-wheeler
gharry
gig
governess cart
growler
hackery
hackney
hansom
haywain
hearse
herdic
horsecar
jaunting car
karozzin
landau
limber
lorry
mail coach
mud wagon
narrowboat
noddy
omnibus
one-horse shay
park drag
phaeton
post coach
post-chaise
quadriga
ralli car
ratha
road coach
roadster
rockaway
rumble-tumble
shandrydan
shay
sledge
sleigh
sociable
spider phaeton
sprung cart
stagecoach
stanhope
sulky
surrey
tachanka
tally-ho
tarantass
tax cart
telega
tilbury
tonga
trap
triga
troika
trolley
tum-tum
un-sprung cart
van
vardo
vettura
victoria
vis-à-vis
volante
wagonette
wain
war wagon
whirlicote
whisky
Whitechapel cart
cataphract
charioteer
coachman
cowboy
cuirassier
dragoon
driver
equestrian
farrier
groom
hobelar
horseman
horse whisperer
hostler
hussar
jarvey
jockey
lancer
loriner
postilion
rider
saddler
savari
teamster
trainer
uhlan
vaquero
wagoneer
barn
carriage house
coach barn
coach house
corral
hitching post
horse trailer
livery stable
mews
paddock
pasture
pen
stable
stall
dressage
harness racing
horserace
jousting
polo
blow
hoofbeat
amble
balk
billet
bolt
buck
caracole
cover
gait
jog
lope
nicker
pace
prance
rear
run
shy
stampede
cavalcade
constable
marshal
Derived words: a camel is a horse designed by a committee
a camel is a horse made by a committee
a camel is a horse made by committee
a-cock-horse
African horse sickness
ahorse
a horse apiece
and the horse you rode in on
a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
antihorse
Arab horse
Arabian horse
Asian wild horse
Assateague horse
Atlantic horse mackerel
back the right horse
back the wrong horse
bathorse
bat-horse
bat horse
battlehorse
Bay Horse
beat a dead horse
behorsed
bell-horse
Berkley horse
Black Forest horse
black horse
blood horse
boathorse
bottle-horse
buy the same horse twice
cart horse
carthorse
chamber horse
change horses in midstream
charley-horse
charley horse
charlie horse
choose the wrong horse
chore horse
close the barn door after the horse has bolted
close the stable door after the horse has been stolen
close the stable door after the horse has bolted
clotheshorse
clothes horse
clothes-horse
coach horse
coachhorse
cock-horse
covering horse
cutting horse
cutting-horse
Dalecarlian horse
dandy horse
dandy-horse
darkhorse
dark horse
dark-horse
dawn horse
dead horse
devil's coach-horse
devil's horse
dishorse
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
draft horse
draught horse
drayhorse
drum horse
Dzungarian horse
eat like a horse
enough to choke a horse
fairies' horse
film horse
Finnhorse
Finnish horse
fjord horse
Flemish horse
flog a dead horse
Florida horse conch
forehorse
the horse's mouth
get a horse
get back on the horse
get back on the horse that bucked one
get off one's high horse
gift horse
grass mud horse
healthy as a horse
hebra
henny
high horse
hobby horse
hobby-horse
hold one's horses
hooden horse
horned horse
horseable
horse and buggy
horse and carriage
horse and cart
horse and foot
horse and hattock
Horse and Jockey
horse and rabbit stew
horse ant
horse apple
horseapple
horse apples
horse archer
horse armor
horse artillery
horseback
horseball
horsebalm
horsebarn
horse bean
horse-bee
horse-bell
horse blanket
horse blob
horse-block
horseboat
horse bot fly
horsebound
horsebox
horse box
horse boy
horse brass
horse-bread
horsebreaker
horse-breaker
horsebreaking
horsebreeder
horsebrush
horse bun
horseburger
horse bus
horse butcher
horsecar
horse car
horsecart
horse chestnut
horse-chestnut
horsecloth
horse cock
horsecock
horse collar
horse-collar
horsecollar
horse-comb
horse comb
horse crab
horsecraft
horsecrap
horsedealer
horse dick
horsedick
horse doctor
horsedom
horse-drawn
horse-drench
horsedung
horse engine
horse-faced
horse face
horseface
horse fair
horse fame
horse famous
horsefeathers
horse ferry
horsefish
horseflesh
horse fly
horsefly
horse-fly
horsefoot
horsefright
horsefucker
Horsegate
horse gentian
horse girl
horse-godmother
horse gram
horse guard
horse guard wasp
horsehair
horsehead
horse-head fiddle
horse head fiddle
horsehead fiddle
horse-heal
horseheal
horseherd
horsehide
horse-hoarse merger
horse hockey
horse hoe
horsehood
horsehoof
horse-hung
horse iron
horse-jockey
horsekeeper
horsekind
horseknop
horse-latitudes
horse latitudes
horselaugh
horse laugh
horselaughter
horse leech
horse-leech
horseless
horseless carriage
horselet
horse-like
horselike
horseling
horse litter
horse-litter
horseload
horse-lock
horselore
horsely
horse mackerel
horseman
horsemanship
horse manure
horse marine
horsemaster
horsemeat
horsemilk
horse-milliner
horse mint
horsemint
horsemonger
horse mushroom
horse mussel
horsen
horsenail
horse-nail
horseness
horse nettle
horsenettle
horsenostrilled
horse of a different color
horse of a different colour
horse opera
horse-opera
horse-operatic
horse parlor
horse paste
horseperson
horse pill
horse piss
horse pistol
horseplayer
horseplay
horse-play
horsepond
horsepoop
horse-power
horsepower
horse power
horsepox
horse-pox
horseproof
horse puckey
horse pucky
horse-race
horse race
horserace
horse racing
horse-radish
horseradish
horserake
horse rider
horserider
horseriding
horse salt
horse scoop
horse sense
horses for courses
horseshit
horse shoe
horseshoe
horseshoer
horse-shoe vetch
horse show
horse sickness
horsesit
horseskin
horse soldier
horse spray
horse stance
Horse Station Creek
horse steroid
horse-stinger
horsetail
horse tail
horsethief
horse thief
horse tornado
horsetrade
horse trade
horsetrader
horse-trader
horse trader
horse-trading
horsetrading
horse trading
horse trailer
horse tranquilizer
horsetwaddle
horse-wain
horse-watcher
horseway
horsewear
horseweed
horsewheel
horsewhip
horse whip
horse whisperer
horse-whispering
horsewoman
horsewood
horseworm
horsey
horse-yard
horsiculture
horsie
horsy
hung like a horse
Icelandic horse
I could eat a horse
if wishes were horses, beggars would ride
Irish horse
iron horse
Kaimanawa horse
Kansas horse plague
Kicking Horse Pass
Kimberley horse disease
Latvian horse
led horse
lesson horse
light horse
lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen
lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
market horse
master of the horse
mechanical horse
merhorse
Mongolian wild horse
Morgan horse
mount a horse foaled by an acorn
mount the high horse
multihorse
my kingdom for a horse
never look a gift horse in the mouth
no horse in that race
no horse in this race
no horse run
nonhorse
Numinbah horse sickness
of course my horse
Old Horse
old horse
one-horse
one-horse race
one-horse town
on one's high horse
pack-horse
pack horse
packhorse
paint horse
pair-horse
pantomime horse
pick the wrong horse
piss like a horse
plowhorse
ploughhorse
pommel horse
post horse
posthorse
post-horse
Potomac horse fever
prehorse
Przewalski's horse
Prejevalsky's horse
Prjevalsky's horse
Przhevalski's horse
Przhevalsky's horse
Przhevalskii's horse
put the cart before the horse
put the saddle on the right horse
quarter horse
racehorse
rare as rocking horse shit
rear-horse)
redhorse
red horse
ride a horse foaled by an acorn
ride a horse foaled of an acorn
ride the cotton horse
ride the high horse
riding horse
river horse
road horse
rocking horse
rocking-horse
rocking-horse shit
rocking horse shit
saddle horse
salt horse
saw-horse
sawhorse
school horse
sea-horse
sea horse
seahorse
a man about a horse
shave horse
shaving horse
shire horse
showhorse
shut the stable door after the horse has bolted
sick as a horse
side horse
snowhorse
sorrel horse
spring horse
stalking-horse
stalking horse
steel horse
stock horse
stone-horse
straight from the horse's mouth
strong as a horse
stud horse
sumpter horse
superhorse
swap horses in midstream
sweat like a horse
take horse
the grey mare is the better horse
thill-horse
Tokara horse
towel-horse
trace horse
Trojan-horse
Trojan horse
troop horse
underhorsed
Vale of White Horse
vaulting horse
warhorse
war-horse
war horse
waterhorse
water horse
werehorse
wheelhorse
wheel-horse
wheel horse
white horse
Whitehorse
wild horse
willing horse
wind horse
witch's horse
wooden horse
workhorse
work horse
working horse
work like a horse
Yakutian horse
yardhorse
you can lead a horse to water
you can't put the shit back in the horse
zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
zeehorse
zorse
horse about
horse around
unhorse
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: նժույգ
roman: nžuyg
lang: Bulgarian
word: кон
roman: kon
lang: Catalan
word: poltre
lang: Czech
word: kůň
lang: Dutch
word: bok
lang: Faroese
word: hestur
lang: Finnish
word: hevonen
lang: French
word: cheval d'arçons
lang: Galician
word: cabalería
lang: German
word: Pferd
lang: German
word: Pauschenpferd
lang: German
word: Seitpferd
lang: Greek
word: ίππος
roman: íppos
lang: Hungarian
word: ló
lang: Icelandic
word: hestur
lang: Italian
word: cavallina
lang: Italian
word: cavallo
lang: Māori
word: amorangi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: hest
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bukk
lang: Portuguese
word: cavalo
lang: Romanian
word: capră
lang: Russian
word: конь
roman: konʹ
lang: Spanish
word: potro
lang: Swedish
word: bock
lang: Turkish
word: kasa
lang: Turkish
word: beygir
lang: Uyghur
word: ياغاچ ئات
roman: yaghach at