Word Meanings - HORSEBACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The back of a horse.
- Horserake
A rake drawn by a horse. - HORSEPOWER
. 1. The power which a horse exerts. 2. (Mach.) - HORSERADISH
A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. (Bot.) See Moringa. - Horse-jockey
A professional rider and trainer of race horses. - Horseshoe
A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof. - Horseshoer
One who shoes horses. - Horselaugh
A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw. - Horseshoeing
The act or employment of shoeing horses. - Horse-leech
A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses. - Horsetail
A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum. - Horse-chestnut
The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. - Horse-leechery
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - Horseweed
A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed. - Horse-drench
A dose of physic for a horse. - Horse-litter
A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
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