cockhorse

cockhorse
noun
anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult)
• Hypernyms: ↑plaything, ↑toy

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I. \\ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ noun
Etymology: perhaps from cock (II) + horse
1. : something (as an adult's knee, a broomstick, or a hobbyhorse) on which a child may sit astride and pretend to ride as if on a horse

ride a cockhorse

2. : an extra horse led behind a coach to be hitched before the regular team to assist in passing over steep or difficult terrain
II. adverb

ride cockhorse on a broomstick

emaciated beasts that were lame and blindfolded and padded, but ridden cockhorse — J.H.Allen

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/kok"hawrs'/, n.
a child's rocking horse or hobbyhorse.
[1530-40; orig. father's leg, astride which child rides, from COCK1 in sense "projection" + HORSE]

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cockhorseˈ noun
A child's imaginary or toy horse
adjective
Prancing, proud
adverb
1. Properly a-cockhorseˈ (ie on cockhorse) on horseback
2. Exultingly
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Main Entry: ↑cock

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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