Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cockhorse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cockhorse \Cock"horse`\, n.
1. A child's rocking-horse.
Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. --Mother
Goose.
2. A high or tall horse. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cockhorse \Cock"horse`\, a.
1. Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
2. Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.
Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry.
--Marlowe.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cockhorse
n : a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horsehead on
one end of a stick; the child straddles it an pretends to
ride [syn: {hobby}, {hobbyhorse}, {rocking horse}, {stick
horse}]
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