? A horse, a trotting horse; an inferior horse, a jade.

A horse. In Old English ? one of an inferior kind.

A contemptuous name for a horse; a horse of inferior breed, e.g. a cart- or draught-horse as opposed to a riding horse; a roadster, a hack; a sorry…

A mare: usually applied to an old mare; also loosely to an old or worn-out horse (associated with jade, n.1).

An inferior horse.

A small horse, a horse that is not fully grown; (in later use) any horse; a nag. Now English regional.

A worthless or vicious beast, esp. a horse; a sorry hack, a jade. Obsolete.

A tired person or animal: in quots. attributive or as adj.: cf. hireling priest, etc.

a worn-out horse slaughtered for dog's meat; (hence) any old or worn-out horse.

? A worn-out horse.

(A name for) a worn-out or out-of-condition horse; a hack, a nag.

singular. A beast of burden, a draught ox or horse; hence, spec. a horse used for heavy work, a cart-horse; and in later usage, in northern dialect…

A horse, esp. a sorry horse.

An undersized or otherwise inferior horse.

In sense 1, as hack horse, hack mare, etc.

A worthless or worn-out horse; one that is of inferior quality. Also occasionally applied to cattle.

An Arabian horse that is not a thoroughbred; a cross-bred horse, a nag; a gelding.

U.S. Originally: a horse that lacks vitality, mettle, or spirit. In later use chiefly: a horse that is not a thoroughbred. Obsolete.

An old, feeble, or inferior horse.

= crows'-meat n.; spec. an old or worn-out horse.

colloquial. = cast one.

slang (originally North American). North American slang. An old and worn-out horse; (more generally) any horse. Also (Australian and New Zealand slang…

transferred. An old worn-out horse. dialect.

= sense 9b.

An old broken-down horse.

A poor, worn-out, decrepit horse.

A horse and trap, esp. one in a ramshackle condition; the driver or hirer of one of these. In extended use: an inferior, substandard, or decrepit…