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# unhorse

«unhorse» in Mova's school dictionary: **To knock or throw a rider off a horse** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (unhorse, unhorses, unhorsed, unhorsing)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) To knock or throw a rider off a horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unhorse/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories a knight in a fight is knocked from his horse

### examples

- The knight unhorsed his rival with one blow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unhorse/#x1)
- The bandit tried to unhorse the rider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unhorse/#x2)
- If you pull him hard, you will unhorse him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unhorse/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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