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  • checked A boxing ring. A ring on a finger. The rings of a tree. The circus ring. A ring on a bird's leg. The rings of Saturn. ring (third-person singular...
    62 KB (4,815 words) - 03:50, 10 November 2024
  • wheelhorse (category en:Horses)
    also: wheel horse WOTD – 29 May 2018 From wheel +‎ horse. Sense 2 (“person who labors heavily for a cause”) is from the fact that a horse nearest to the...
    10 KB (1,182 words) - 12:15, 27 September 2024
  • Society, volumes 83–84, page 212: The Marathas made reciprocal presents of a ‘horse and sarpech to all leading members of the English settlement’. 1996, M....
    1 KB (175 words) - 17:10, 19 August 2023
  • classic (category en:Horse racing)
    Vamplew, Encyclopedia of British Horse Racing, page 316: The goal of the top horses was to win a Classic (or preferably three, thus claiming the Triple Crown)...
    9 KB (696 words) - 12:52, 27 September 2024
  • British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164: Mobile starting-gates and horse-boxes stand parked along the kerbs, and behind every large house, it seems...
    4 KB (264 words) - 14:59, 6 December 2024
  • curb (category en:Horse tack)
    happening right outside their front door." A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage...
    9 KB (1,067 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2024
  • IPA(key): /fɔɹ/ (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: fōr, IPA(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/ (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /foə/ (General...
    32 KB (1,703 words) - 02:02, 28 November 2024
  • at me through the press, and, staggering back With stroke on stroke the horse and horseman, came As comes a pillar of electric cloud, Flaying the roofs...
    2 KB (238 words) - 09:08, 7 November 2024
  • ride in coaches driven with six horses, although they did not even have a donkey foal in their house; they wear golden rings and walk in scarlet clothes,...
    2 KB (260 words) - 03:01, 2 August 2024
  • a division ring or skew field, not necessarily commutative. If it is clear from the context that the quaternions and similar division rings are irrelevant...
    47 KB (2,862 words) - 21:45, 10 December 2024
  • bay (category en:Horse colors)
    (plural bays) (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in...
    25 KB (2,194 words) - 14:32, 7 December 2024
  • rank (category en:Horse racing)
    up upon one stalk, rank and good. 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick: The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable...
    22 KB (1,879 words) - 21:26, 8 December 2024
  • end of a crop opposite the handle, which is broad enough to prevent the horse's skin from being marked as it might be by a whip. 1912, Minnie McIntyre...
    12 KB (1,104 words) - 16:27, 3 November 2024
  • [səˈpʰɔɹt], [səˈpʰoɹt] (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /səˈpo(ː)ɹt/ (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /səˈpoət/ Rhymes:...
    24 KB (1,316 words) - 02:50, 5 December 2024
  • of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches. (nautical) A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging. (television...
    13 KB (1,033 words) - 22:00, 8 December 2024
  • Knowledge Belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or Horse-leech, Touching the Curing of All Diseases in Horses: […], 5th edition, London: […] Nicholas and Iohn...
    29 KB (3,306 words) - 21:30, 30 October 2024
  • paddock (category en:Horse racing)
    paddock was fairly well filled with people and they were walking the horses around in a ring under the trees behind the grand stand. 1931 November, John Galsworthy...
    15 KB (2,289 words) - 11:09, 27 September 2024
  • pack leader an animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs 1846, Julius Charles Hare, “On the Comforter's conviction...
    20 KB (1,355 words) - 20:48, 8 December 2024
  • tree (category gv:Three)
    IPA(key): /tɹiː/, [tɹiː], [t͡ʃɹiː], [t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪi̯] Rhymes: -iː Homophone: three (th-stopping) tree (plural trees or (obsolete) treen) A perennial woody...
    42 KB (3,079 words) - 22:00, 8 December 2024
  • a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings? A small quantity of straw etc. (Scots law, historical)...
    30 KB (1,947 words) - 00:20, 11 December 2024
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