COCKHORSE

n. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A child's rocking-horse. Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. Mother Goose.

2.
n.

A high or tall horse. [R.]

3.
a.

Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.

4.
a.

Lofty in feeling; exultant; pround; upstart. Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry. Marlowe.


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