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ˈroad-horse
Also 1 rádhors, 4 roode-, 4–5 rode-.
[f. road n.1 1 and 4.]
†1. A riding-horse. Obs.
c1000ælfric Hom. (Assmann) viii. 233 Man sceal..lætan hine ridan on þæs cyninges radhorse. 1388Wyclif 1 Kings iv. 26 Salomon hadde fourty thousynd cratchis of horsis for charis, and twelue thousynde of roode horsis. 1424E.E. Wills (1882) 58 Þe remenaunt of my rode horses I wul be departyd. 1547Ancaster MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 455 The holl nomber of road horses and geldinges, as well ambelinge as trottinge.
2. A horse serviceable for, or used on, the road.
1743Bracken (title), Traveller's Pocket Farrier,..with Directions for the Choice of a Good Road-Horse. 1790T. Bewick Hist. Quadrup. (1824) 9 The old English Road-horse is a strong, vigorous, and active kind, capable of enduring great hardship. 1890Atlantic Monthly Apr. 517/1 In a sense, every horse driven by the owner for pleasure is a road horse. 1897Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 4 Jan. 2/2 Some of the owners of fast road-horses. |