Jockey vs Equison - What's the difference?
jockey | equison |
One who rides racehorses competitively.
That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
(dated) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
(dated) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
(Ireland, crime, slang) A rapist.
To ride (a horse) in a race.
To maneuver (something) by skill for one's advantage.
To cheat or trick.
(archaic) groom, ostler, equerry, jockey
* 1824–1829 : , Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen , volume 1?, page 13? (
* 1834 : The Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature , volume 3,
* 1893 : John Hankins Wallace, Wallace’s Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to Domesticated Animal Nature , volume 19,
As nouns the difference between jockey and equison
is that jockey is jockey (one who rides racehorses competitively) while equison is (archaic) groom, ostler, equerry, jockey.jockey
English
(wikipedia jockey)Noun
(en noun)- (Macaulay)
Derived terms
* disc jockey * jockReferences
*Verb
(en verb)equison
English
Noun
(en noun)1891 republication)
- Once indeed, I confess it, I was very near falling as low: words passed between me and the more favored man of letters, who announces to the world the Works and Days of Newmarket,?—?the competitors at its games, their horses, their equisons and colours, and the attendant votaries of that goddess who readily leaves Paphos or Amathus for this annual celebration.
page 46
- The primitive Esquires'' were no other than what the Latins called ''Equisons'' , who had the care and intendance of the ''equerries , or stables only.
page 497(B. Singerly)
- In France escuere is a stable; in England esquire was the ?Squire of the stable. Equison was an old name for a horse jockey. We have equestrian, equestrienne, equitant, equitation, equitancy, for riders and riding; equine and equinal, pertaining to the horse; equivorous, horse-flesh eating; equinia, glanders. Equipage, as applied now to a carriage, is not derived from equus , as it might at first sight be supposed.
References
* “equison²]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989