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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who trains or breaks horses; especially, one who trains horses for racing.

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Examples

  • The horse was identified by its tattoo and someone at the pen contacted Mr. Contessa, 54 years old, a leading horse-trainer in New York and proprietor of Contessa Racing.

    After Their Racing Days Melanie Grayce West 2012

  • When fatherhood stops being associated with the cold, horse-trainer aspect of childrearing and becomes a kind of mommyhood-lite, there's bound to be a bit of cultural confusion.

    Frankie Thomas: "I Can't Stop Thinking About Your Dad": A Primer in Dad Humor 2008

  • I said something to Armando that he found rather amusing, and something happened, I don't recall what, but then the horse-trainer said to the actress, loud and clear, "I'm gonna hit her!"

    5th February '04 2004

  • The horse-trainer wrapped me on the knuckles with her pen when I wasn't paying attention to Armando and was finishing off a discussion with Mai a girl in the group.

    5th February '04 2004

  • Just today here in Shenandoah County I heard it twice in a half-hour conversation, once where it meant disbelief response to a joke - the ferrier didn't believe the horse-trainer feeds them mustard oil, and once where it meant non-comprehension.

    languagehat.com: DO WHAT? 2004

  • But he had loved no one particularly, had been dear to no one in these latter days of his life, had been of very little use in the world, and had done very little more for society than any other horse-trainer!

    The American Senator 2004

  • A young jockey and horse-trainer, who had trained some horses for my uncle, once talked to me of wicked England while we cooked a turkey for our Christmas dinner, making it twist about on a string in front of his harness-room fire.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • My uncle had almost given up hunting and was soon to give it up altogether, and he had once ridden steeplechases and been, his horse-trainer said, the best rider in Connacht.147 He had certainly great knowledge of horses, for I have been told, several counties away, that at Ballina he cured horses by conjuring.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • A young jockey and horse-trainer, who had trained some horses for my uncle, once talked to me of wicked England while we cooked a turkey for our Christmas dinner, making it twist about on a string in front of his harness-room fire.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • My uncle had almost given up hunting and was soon to give it up altogether, and he had once ridden steeplechases and been, his horse-trainer said, the best rider in Connacht.147 He had certainly great knowledge of horses, for I have been told, several counties away, that at Ballina he cured horses by conjuring.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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