WARHORSE

War Horse

War Horse is a 2011 war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is an adaptation of British author Michael Morpurgo's 1982 children's novel of the same name set before and during World War I.

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Warhorse

Warhorse were a British Rock band formed by the former Deep Purple bassist, Nick Simper.

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warhorse

Noun

  1. Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armored knight.
    As he spoke, the knight-errant, who had remounted his warhorse, galloped forward to the royal stand, with a silken kerchief bound round his wounded arm. — Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, .
  2. A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.
    2006 Most important though is the fact that, for the first time in I can barely remember how long, the ROH mounts a new production of an Italian repertory warhorse that is fully on the level of the one it replaces indeed, in some respects, surpasses it 1 we actually have a "Tosca". — Google group.
  3. An experienced person who has been through many battles, situations or contests; someone who has given long service.
    "Srinath: India's warhorse" (headline from BBC News)


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