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# horse

«horse» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big strong animal with four legs, hooves, a mane and a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (horse, horses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A horse is a big strong animal with four legs, hooves, a mane and a long tail, that people ride or use to pull carts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#m1)

2) A horse (a vaulting horse) is a piece of gym equipment you jump over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#m2)

3) A toy horse, like a rocking horse or a hobby horse, is made for children to play on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, animals counted; 4 legs each; rides with a price or speed. In science, a horse is a mammal that eats grass and hay; a baby horse is a foal. In everyday life: horse riding, farms, police horses, races. In safety: never walk right behind a horse, it can kick. In stories, knights and cowboys ride horses. Phrases: «ride a horse», «on horseback», «horse riding», «hold your horses» (wait).

### examples

- The farm has 6 horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x1)
- Each horse eats 10 kg of hay a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x2)
- How many legs do the horses have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x3)
- A horse ride costs 5 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x4)
- She has riding lessons on a brown horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x5)
- The horse pulled the cart up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x6)
- A baby horse is called a foal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x7)
- The knight rode his white horse to the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x8)
- In gym class we jumped over the horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x9)
- «Hold your horses!» said Dad, meaning «wait a moment». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x10)
- The king leaped from his horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/#x11)

### note

Plural: horses. Animals counted; «each horse eats» is a rate. Trap: in leg puzzles a horse has 4 legs, a rider 2. Do not confuse with hoarse (a rough voice when you have a sore throat), which sounds the same.

### In the corpora

- [A reference is a photo or object you look at while you draw, like the photo Ling checked for her horse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/7/)
- [You can be kind and honest at once: "I love the colours, the horse's legs could be longer."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/38-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback/13/)
- [Horse teeth keep growing out and wearing down on tough grass, so a vet can guess a horse's age from its teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/8/)
- [Zebras defend themselves with powerful kicks and bites that can badly injure a lion, and they have never been tamed like horses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/13/)
- [In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen 40 years earlier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «horse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.