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horse

paard

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horse

1. paard, ''arch.'' ros

Engels > Engels

horse

1. n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

2. n. A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.

3. n. (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.

These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.

4. n. (military, sometimes un) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.

All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.

5. n. (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.

Now just remind me how the horse moves again?

6. n. (slang) A large person.

Every linebacker they have is a real horse.

7. n. (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

8. n. Equipment with legs.

9. n. In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.

She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.

10. n. A frame with legs, used to support something.

a clothes horse; a sawhorse

11. n. (nautical) Type of equipment.

12. n. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

13. n. A breastband for a leadsman.

14. n. An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

15. n. A jackstay.

16. n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches

17. n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

18. n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a pl

19. n. (dated, slang) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

20. n. (dated, slang) horseplay; tomfoolery

21. v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

22. v. To provide with a horse.

23. v. (obsolete) To get on horseback.

24. v. To sit astride of; to bestride.

25. v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

26. v. To take or carry on the back.

27. v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

28. n. (slang) Heroin (drug).

Alright, mate, got any horse?

Nederlands > Engels

paard

1. n-n. A horse, Equus caballus or Equus ferus.

2. n-n. (chess) A knight.

3. n-n. (gymnastics) A pommel horse.

4. n-n. (nautical) A rope hanging beneath a spar or other horizontal beam, often fixed in place by other ropes.

5. n-n. (derogatory, offensive) An ugly woman.

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
    Een gegeven paard mag je niet in de bek kijken.
He's as strong as a horse.
    Hij is zo sterk als een paard.
He who seeks a flawless horse or flawless wife, may rest assured that even if his work he did forsake, nor bed nor stable would he ever fill.
    Wie soeckt Peert of Wijf sonder gebreecken, die magh het werck wel laten steecken en bedencken dat hij bed en stal voor eeuwigh ledigh houden sal.
The horse broke its neck when it fell.
    Het paard brak zijn nek toen het viel.
I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse.
    Ik heb zoveel honger dat ik een paard kon opeten.

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