cockhorse

See also: cock-horse

English

Adjective

cockhorse (comparative more cockhorse, superlative most cockhorse)

  1. Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
  2. Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.
    • Marlowe
      Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry.

Noun

cockhorse (plural cockhorses)

  1. (archaic) A child's rocking horse.
    • Mother Goose
      Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross.
  2. (obsolete) A high or tall horse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cockhorse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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