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As nouns the difference between horse and heaves

is that horse is (lb) of, like, or closely associated with the animal equus ferus caballus or horse can be (uncountable|slang|dated) heroin while heaves is .

As verbs the difference between horse and heaves

is that horse is to frolic, to act mischievously (usually followed by "around") while heaves is (heave).

horse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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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  • #(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.
  • *1962 , , 00:15:20
  • *: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 ).
  • Usage notes
    * The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarse
    Synonyms
    * (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knight
    Hyponyms
    * (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallion
    Derived 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 horse
    See 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)
  • To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
  • * (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
  • "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
    But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
  • * (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :
  • 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.
  • To provide with a horse.
  • * Shakespeare
  • being better horsed , outrode me
  • (obsolete) To get on horseback.
  • * 1888 , :
  • He horsed himself well.
  • To sit astride of; to bestride.
  • * 1608 , , II. i. 203:
  • Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
  • (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
  • To take or carry on the back.
  • * S. Butler
  • the keeper, horsing a deer
  • 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
  • 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 * unhorse

    Etymology 2

    Noun

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  • (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.
  • Alright, mate, got any horse ?
    Synonyms
    * (heroin) H, smack

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    heaves

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (colloquial) A period of retching.
  • I have the dry heaves , I rather just throw up and get it over with.
  • A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (heave)
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