Hen vs Horse - What's the difference?
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(dialectal) To throw.
A female bird.
(specifically ) A female chicken, especially one kept for its eggs.
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (slang) A woman.
(informal) The woman whose impending marriage is being celebrated at a hen night.
(lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.
#A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
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#*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses', carriage-'''horses''', and cart-' horses , without taking the least notice of them.
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, chapter=5, title= #(lb) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae , including the zebra or the ass.
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# Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
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# The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.
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#(lb) A large person.
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#(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
(lb) Equipment with legs.
#In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
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#A frame with legs, used to support something.
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Equipment.
#A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
#A breastband for a leadsman.
#An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
#A jackstay.
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(lb) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
(lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
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*:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
(lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).
To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
* (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
* (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :
To provide with a horse.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
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To sit astride of; to bestride.
* 1608 , , II. i. 203:
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
To take or carry on the back.
* S. Butler
To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
* 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone
(uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.
As verbs the difference between hen and horse
is that hen is to throw while horse is to frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around"..As nouns the difference between hen and horse
is that hen is a female bird while horse is Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.As an adverb hen
is hence.hen
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) henne, heonne, hinne, from earlier henene, heonenen, henen, from (etyl) heonan, hionan, heonane, . See also (l).Etymology 2
From , or a variant of hench.Verb
(henn)Etymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) henn, .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen , the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
Derived terms
* henbane * hen harrier * hen party * henpecked * mother henSee also
* * broodyAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----horse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
Usage notes
* The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarseSynonyms
* (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knightHyponyms
* (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallionDerived terms
* change horses in midstream * cutting horse * dark horse * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * * flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse * from the horse's mouth * get off one's high horse * hold one's horses * horse and carriage * horseback * horse-breaker * horse-chestnut * horse-drawn * horse face * horsefeathers * horseflesh * horsefly * horsely * horse latitudes * horselaugh * horseman * horsemanship * horse of a different color * horse opera * horse pill * horseplay * horsepower * horse race * horse racing * horseradish * horse sense * horses for courses * horseshit * horseshoe * horse-stinger * horse trading * horsewhip * horsey, horsy, horsie * hung like a horse * I could eat a horse * one-horse race * one-horse town * pack horse, packhorse * plowhorse, ploughhorse * pommel horse * rocking horse * saddle horse * sawhorse * sea horse, seahorse * straight from the horse's mouth * sumpter horse * swap horses in midstream * vaulting horse * warhorse * willing horse * workhorse * work like a horseSee also
(kinds of horse by physical attributes) * stallion, sire, ridgeling, gelding * mare, dame * colt, yearling * filly, foal * pony (kinds of horse by employment) * sumpter, rowney * palfrey * charger, destrier * brumby, mustang (related terms) * knight, cavalier, cavalry, chivalry * equid, equine * gee, haw, giddy-up, whoa * hoof, mane, tail, withers * gallop, canter, walk, trot * neigh, whinny * tandem, team, chariot, cart, wagon * ungulate * *Verb
(hors)- "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
- I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.
- being better horsed , outrode me
- He horsed himself well.
- Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
- the keeper, horsing a deer
- So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
Derived terms
* horse around * unhorseEtymology 2
Noun
(-)- Alright, mate, got any horse ?