Meanings
nounhorse-trader (plural horse-traders)
plural horse-traders
- alternativeAlternative spelling of horsetrader.
Kim, fending the lama between excited men and excited beasts, sidled along the cloisters to the far end, nearest the railway station, where Mahbub Ali, the horse-trader, lived when he came in from that mysterious land beyond the Passes of the North.
1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 25
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