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arbs at one end a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power. -- Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale.

To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill. When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops. U. S. Grant. To haul over the coals. See under Coal. -- To haul the wind (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which…

A fork for pitching and tedding hay. Horse hayfork, a contrivance for unloading hay from the cart and depositing it in the loft, or on a mow, by horse power.

A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.

A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.

rnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.

A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle. The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea. Gray.

sed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.

A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, a person having a proud bearing. [Colloq.]

Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse.

h is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse. He was in the hinder part of the ship. Mark iv. 38.

An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family.

A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick. -- Hip`po*bos"can, a.

A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. Fairholt.

n order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolæma.

Shaped like a horseshoe.

A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin. Milton.

A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse.