Definitions

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  • noun That which is not a horse.
  • adjective Not of or pertaining to horses.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ horse

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Examples

  • Baseball, apple pie and a President thats doing a great job for America, not some hillbilly and fake nonhorse riding wannabe that couldnt even manage a team, a state, or a country.

    Obama set to take the mound at All Star game 2009

  • Tribes who learned to hunt on horseback gained an almost instant military dominance over nonhorse tribes, and for a time over everyone else who dared challenge them.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • So it isn't just that the concept being a horse does not apply to the Dinge in the sense that none of them, as it happens, is a horse (all are nonhorses), for then the complement of that concept -- being a nonhorse -- would apply.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • [45] Hick is thinking (I take it) of properties such that it is necessary that everything has them: such properties as being self-identical, having properties, having essential properties, being either a horse or a nonhorse, and being such that 7 + 5 = 12.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • Our horse group does a lot of charity work to benefit the nonhorse-owning residents of the county.

    Ventura County Star Stories 2010

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