Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stallion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Stallion.
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- noun obsolete A
stallion .
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Examples
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When you ride a stone-horse with the power of the wind
Shambhala Prayer 1985
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When you ride a stone-horse with the power of the wind
Shambhala Prayer 1985
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His hunting-horses were the finest and best managed in all these parts: His tenants are still full of the praises of a grey stone-horse that unhappily staked himself several years since, and was buried with great solemnity in the orchard.
The Coverley Papers Various
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He wrote a letter to the Chevalier de St. George, then residing at Avignon, to whom he presented a very fine stone-horse.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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Among the rest of the supplies sent to my tenants in the island, I sent them by the sloop three milch cows and five calves; about twenty-two hogs, among them three sows; two mares, and a stone-horse.
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Among the rest of the supplies sent to my tenants in the island, I sent them by the sloop three milch cows and five calves; about twenty-two hogs, among them three sows; two mares, and a stone-horse.
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1696
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His hunting horses were the finest and best managed [104] in all these parts: his tenants are still full of the praises of a grey stone-horse [105] that unhappily staked [106] himself several years since, and was buried with great solemnity in the orchard.
The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' Joseph Addison 1695
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His hunting horses were the finest and best managed in all these parts: his tenants are still full of the praises of a gray stone-horse that unhappily staked himself several years since, and was buried with great solemnity in the orchard.
Days with Sir Roger De Coverley Joseph Addison 1695
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I can leak now like any stone-horse, said then Epistemon.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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