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Definition of Stick horse
1. Noun. A child's plaything consisting on an imitation horse's head on one end of a stick.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stick Horse
Literary usage of Stick horse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sam Jones' Own Book: A Series of Sermons Collected and Edited Under the by Sam Porter Jones (1887)
"But when I got on a sure-enough horse, and felt his great muscles under me, I
looked back upon my little stick-horse with the greatest disgust. ..."
2. Sam Jones' Own Book: A Series of Sermons Collected and Edited Under the by Sam Porter Jones (1887)
"But when I got on a sure-enough horse, and felt his great muscles under me, I
looked back upon my little stick-horse with the greatest disgust. ..."
3. Archy Somerville: And Other Stories by H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss (1856)
"... AND HIS stick horse. . . Archy was delighted with his new toy, and went to
ask his mother if he might go out of doors to play with it. ..."
4. Practical Child Training by Ray Coppock Beery, Parents association, New York (1918)
"I will," promised the little boy, and away he rode on the stick horse, gallop,
gallop, gallop! By the time that mother and the baby came out of ..."
5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1918)
"The successful contestant in the first stick-horse race was a bold and daring
rider of three summers, who after each heat had his fiery steed carefully ..."
6. School Credit for Home Work by Lewis Raymond Alderman (1915)
"He cut a stick' horse and a switch. The boy mounted at a bound, ... By the time
he reached home he had ridden the stick horse twice as far as the others had ..."
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