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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A path for horses; specifically, a bridle-path, or the tow-path along a canal.

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Examples

  • This was especially the case where three or four of them stretched their arms over a deep gully, through which winded the horse-path to Shaws – Castle, at a point about a pistol-shot distant from the Buck-stane.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Turning the corner of the house, they forded the streamlet previously mentioned, crossed the valley, and ascended by a narrow horse-path the opposite hill, leaving the canebrake some distance away to the left.

    Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Emerson Bennett

  • The plain was soon cleared; and three hours 'ride by a good horse-path brought us to the village of Senua, consisting of a dozen houses.

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • A horse-path naturally forms in the centre of the road, and wheel-ruts upon either side, which make excellent channels for the water to run in during every rain-storm.

    The Road and the Roadside Burton Willis Potter 1885

  • Slowly Winthrop's horse carried him forward – but little time then was needed to bring him round to the back of the house, at the kitchen door, whither the horse-path led.

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

  • California life -- the miner, bearded, dressed in his rude costume -- the staunch California friendship -- the sweet air -- the graves one, in passing, meets, solitary, just aside the horse-path;

    Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

  • California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;

    The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

  • Slowly Winthrop's horse carried him forward -- but little time then was needed to bring him round to the back of the house, at the kitchen door, whither the horse-path led.

    Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852

  • South, stretches a vast plain, which has been from time immemorial what may be called the wild common and place of encampment, or again the highway, or the broad horse-path, of restless populations seeking a home.

    Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845

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