horse

noun

• 1a solid-hoofed plant-eating domesticated mammal with a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads.

  • Equus caballus, family Equidae (the horse family), descended from the wild Przewalski’s horse. The horse family also includes the asses and zebras
• an adult male horse; a stallion or gelding.
• a wild mammal of the horse family.
• [treated as singular or plural] cavalry:forty horse and sixty foot

• 2a frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse.
• Nautical a horizontal bar, rail, or rope in the rigging of a sailing ship.
• short for vaulting horse.

• 3 informal a unit of horsepower:a 63-horse engine

• 4 [mass noun] informal heroin.

• 5 Mining an obstruction in a vein.

verb

• [with object] provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses: six men, horsed, masked, and armed