horse-block

noun

A platform or steps used for getting on or off a horse or, in modern times, sometimes a vehicle.

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Meanings

nounhorse-block (plural horse-blocks)

plural horse-blocks · alternative horse block

  1. A platform or steps used for getting on or off a horse or, in modern times, sometimes a vehicle.

    One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

    1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
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