Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who buys and sells horses.
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Examples
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When Mahbub Ali, a red-bearded Pashtun horse-dealer, a mentor to the eponymous, sends him in Kim to the hills to learn, he cries out: "Go up the hill and ask: Here begins the Great Game."
Ehsan Azari Stanizai: To Solve Afghanistan's Great Game Climb the Hills and Ask
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Raised in a village in Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales, Mr. Francis was the son of a horse-dealer, steeplechaser and farmer.
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One Murphy, a gipsy horse-dealer, was on the moor at no great distance at the time, but he appears by his own confession to have been the worse for drink.
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In 1904 he emigrated to Manitoba, where he lived in the French settlement of Saint-Claude, and worked as a rancher, hunter, trapper, horse-dealer, and journalist.
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The third presenting to his wine-troubled eye a patch overlooked by the apprentice, with a notable oath he rubbed it with the skirt of his overcoat, much as a horse-dealer polishes the coat of an animal that he is trying to sell.
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Go to the horse-dealer and the coachmaker who are employed by the job-master where Paccard finds work.
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His dress was also that of a horse-dealer — a close-buttoned jockey-coat, or wrap-rascal, as it was then termed, with huge metal buttons, coarse blue upper stockings, called boot-hose because supplying the place of boots, and a slouched hat.
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Lankin and I took our places, the horse-dealer making room for us; and I could not help looking, with a little air of triumph, over to the Kicklebury faction, as much as to say, “You fine folks, with your large footman and supercilious airs, see what WE can do.”
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Knightsbridge, taking her tea, breaking up little bits of toast with her slim fingers, and sitting between a Belgian horse-dealer and a German violoncello-player who has a conge after the opera — like any other mortal.
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“When do you mean, sir?” says I to the fellow — a rough man, a horse-dealer.
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