stone-horse

noun

A stallion.

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Meanings

nounstone-horse (plural stone-horses)

plural stone-horses

  1. obsoleteA stallion.

    'tis no ſmall Advantage to keep a Team of Mares for Breed: But where there is moſt Arable, and little Paſture-Land, Stone-Horses or Geldings are more neceſſary

    1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC
    1 more example

    […] three things ought always to be kept under: a mastiff dog, a stone horse and a clown; and really I think a snarling, cross-grained clown to be the most unlucky beast of three.

    1700, Timothy Nourse, Campania Foelix, pages 15–16
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