HORSE

HORSE

H.O.R.S.E. is a form of poker commonly played at the high stakes tables of casinos. It consists of rounds of play cycling among:

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Horse

The Horse is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

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horse

Noun

  1. Of, like, or closely associated with the animal.
    1. A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
      1. Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.
    2. Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
    3. The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.
    4. A large person.
    5. A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
  2. Equipment with legs.
    1. In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
    2. A frame with legs, used to support something.
  3. Equipment.
    1. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
    2. A breastband for a leadsman.
    3. An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
    4. A jackstay.
  4. A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
  5. The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
  6. An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see ).

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Heroin.
    Alright, mate, got any horse?

Verb

  1. To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
  2. To provide with a horse.
  3. To get on horseback.
  4. To sit astride of; to bestride.
  5. To copulate with (a mare).
  6. To take or carry on the back.
  7. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.


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