Meanings
- not comparableWithout a horse.
As she puts it, "The flat green world of my parents' hogless, horseless farm – its dullness, its flies, its quiet ripped open daily by the fumes and whining of machinery – twisted away and left me with a brilliant city life of books and films and witty friends."
2009 September 6, Barbara Carey, “The trials of mid-America”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 11 Sep 20091 more example
The stealthy Apaches waited until their pale-face friends were well asleep, and then with a piece of cow-hide, hard and thin, sawed out a section of the adobe wall, at the other end of the corral, and in the morning Los Americanos found themselves horseless and muleless.
1877, James F. Rusling, The Great West and Pacific Coast..., p. 402
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
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishhorseless
Translations
Polish bezkonny
- bezkonnyTranslations
Russian безлоша́дный
- безлоша́дный (bezlošádnyj)Translations
Ukrainian безкі́нний
- безкі́нний (bezkínnyj)Translations
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Cite this entry
horseless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horseless
“horseless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horseless. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “horseless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/horseless.
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