Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stocks or a slinging-frame for securing unruly horses while shoeing, or for supporting sick or disabled horses.
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Examples
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We are set down neatly at the gate, and a horse-holder opens the brougham door.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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Count Syzambry flung the reins of his mount to the horse-holder and scrambled from the saddle.
Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992
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It fell to me to be a horse-holder (one man in each section is, of course, a horse-holder when mounted infantry are in action) in this fight.
With Botha in the Field Eric Moore Ritchie
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It so happened that number eight fell to me, and I made Nat Scott -- a boy younger than I whom my parents had lately sent from home to bring me some much-needed articles of clothing -- take my place as horse-holder.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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Miss Grierson pulled up at one of the corners and beckoned to the young iron-moulder who had offered to be her horse-holder on the morning visit.
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
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In ten minutes a horse-holder ran up from the rear, breathless, and announced that the
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come John Fox 1891
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We are set down neatly at the gate, and a horse-holder opens the brougham door.
Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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