Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cavalry soldier.

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Examples

  • Even through my genuine funk, I could feel that strange tremor of excitement that every horse-soldier knows as the squadrons move forward silently in the gloom towards an unsuspecting enemy, slowly and ponderously, bump-bump-bump at the walk, knee to knee, one hand on the bridle, t'other on the hilt of the lamp-blacked sabre, ears straining for the first cry of alarm.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Every horse-soldier carries a spear and two strongly tempered pistols, narrow at the mouth, hanging from his saddle.

    The City of the Sun 2002

  • It was the infantry coats I wanted to see, though, for (and I'm a horse-soldier as says it) I know what matters.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • It was the infantry coats I wanted to see, though, for (and I'm a horse-soldier as says it) I know what matters.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • It was the infantry coats I wanted to see, though, for (and I'm a horse-soldier as says it) I know what matters.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Even through my genuine funk, I could feel that strange tremor of excitement that every horse-soldier knows as the squadrons move forward silently in the gloom towards an unsuspecting enemy, slowly and ponderously, bump-bump-bump at the walk, knee to knee, one hand on the bridle, t'other on the hilt of the lamp-blacked sabre, ears straining for the first cry of alarm.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Even through my genuine funk, I could feel that strange tremor of excitement that every horse-soldier knows as the squadrons move forward silently in the gloom towards an unsuspecting enemy, slowly and ponderously, bump-bump-bump at the walk, knee to knee, one hand on the bridle, t'other on the hilt of the lamp-blacked sabre, ears straining for the first cry of alarm.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Being all for logic, the least useful thing in life, I had arrived at the conclusion that a soldier on horseback is a horse-soldier.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • By his way of it, he had been a camp-follower or servant to a horse-soldier in the Low Countries, which was maybe true, for I will not be denying these wandering folk have the way of horse, and he made

    The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

  • When John Cooper became a man, there were bad times, and he could not get a living at the trade to which he had been brought up: so he went for a horse-soldier.

    The Moral Picture Book Anonymous

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