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Definition of Cockhorse
1. Noun. Anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult).
Definition of Cockhorse
1. n. A child's rocking-horse.
2. a. Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
Definition of Cockhorse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockhorse
Literary usage of Cockhorse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"... introduces the cockhorse is not known to us, for most of his tragedies are
lost, and there is no mention of it in those left, unless the four-footed ..."
2. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"Republicans are fighting with the shadow of an old hat and a cockhorse. I beg to
state that I have a reverence for constituted authority: I speak of what ..."
3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"The ladies sit on cockhorse tipon scaffolds in open view.—Gentleman Instructed, p.
187. My gentlemen return'd to their lodgings on ..."
4. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"... on cockhorse ride. Taylor, the Water Poet, ... Mr. Dennis thinks he has
discovered an early representation of the "cockhorse," the ..."
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