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Definition of Dead heat
1. Noun. A tie in a race.
Definition of Dead heat
1. Noun. (idiomatic) a close race or contest in which no winner is apparent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dead Heat
Literary usage of Dead heat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horse by William Youatt, John Stuart Skinner (1843)
"A distanced horse in a dead heat shall not be allowed to start again in the ...
When a dead heat is made, all the horses not distanced in the dead heat, ..."
2. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"A distanced horse in a dead heat shall not start again. ART. XVII. RELATIVE TO
HEATS.—A horse not winning one heat in three shall not start for a fourth ..."
3. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1830)
"121b... 0212 (Shepherd) 3131 Mr. Parson's bc by Frolic, 4 ум old, 8st. 21b 03}
The first a dead heat between Young Duches« and ..."
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