Meanings
- not comparableDependent on horses.
Being more mobile changed everything for those who adopted a horse-bound life.
2016, Frederick E. Hoxie, The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History2 more examples
It is one thing to point with pride to that fact modern farmer feeds 45 or 50 people while his horsebound forefathers fed only nine or so.
1971, Canadian Jersey Breeder, volume 26, page 13The paintings he chose to adorn his parliamentary office suite were not what you'd expect from the leader of the radically anti-Muslim Party For Freedom (PVV): not the heroic horsebound realism of an archconservative revanchist, nor the stark abstractions of a freemarket libertarian.
2012, Doug Saunders, The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱers-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱr̥sós?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁wers-?
- Proto-Indo-European*wers-
- Proto-Indo-European*wérsēn
- Proto-Indo-Iranian*(w)ŕ̥šā
- Proto-Iranian*(w)ŕ̥šāder.?
- Proto-Germanic*hrussą
- Proto-West Germanic*hross
- Old Englishhors
- Middle Englishhors
- Englishhorse
- Old Norsebúinn
- Middle Englishbownde
- Englishbound
- Englishhorsebound
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Cite this entry
horsebound. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horsebound
“horsebound.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horsebound. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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