horse

Meanings

• solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
• a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
• troops trained to fight on horseback
  • "500 horse led the attack"
• a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
• a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
• provide with a horse or horses

Synonyms

buck, cavalry, Equus caballus, gymnastic horse, horse cavalry, knight, sawbuck, sawhorse