Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In machinery, a lever, so named because of its shape, used on a Heilmann cotton-combing machine as part of the detaching mechanism.
- noun A fish of the genus Selene or the genus γomer; a moonfish or dollar-fish, as Selene vomer or Vomer setipinnis. See cut in next column.
- noun A fish of the family Hippocampidæ; a sea-horse.
- noun A cast of the interior of the shell of a fossil species of Trigoniidæ.
- noun The surf-scoter, a duck, Œdemia perspicillata, more fully called
horsehead coot .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The silver moonfish (
Selene vomer ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pump for pumpingoil from anoil well . - noun A
steel girder supporting theroof of amine tunnel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
- noun any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
Etymologies
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Examples
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His son came to play a concert for us on the horsehead fiddle.
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Accompanied by a long-song and the horsehead fiddle, one after the other got up to dance and then to invite the next to dance in turn.
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Q: has anyone ever fished east horsehead lake minocqua WI? if so, do you know where you can find a boat load of perch?
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Marinara sauce is the great classic Italian tomato sauce from Naples (or maybe even from Spain, but don't say this too loudly in the wrong company or you might find a horsehead in your bed).
Meathead Goldwyn: Grilled Spaghetti? Try this Fired Up Marinara Sauce 2010
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Marinara sauce is the great classic Italian tomato sauce from Naples (or maybe even from Spain, but don't say this too loudly in the wrong company or you might find a horsehead in your bed).
Meathead Goldwyn: Grilled Spaghetti? Try this Fired Up Marinara Sauce 2010
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Some law professors would be waking up next to a horsehead.
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It starts Put the severed horsehead in a very large pot of salted water.
"Does the United States really want to be a country that sends horses to slaughter, here or abroad?" Ann Althouse 2009
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Have the stones only work when the kerfuffle is in position with crafabulator, and the horsehead nebula is putting out heavy RF static, making the devices only work intermittently.
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She seemed to get the same thrill when she unearthed a discarded Lite Brite that I did when I found that set of sixties horsehead lamps.
Pam Bristow: The Dixie Cop: 600 Miles of Yard Sales with my Six Year Old 2009
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Someone is going to have to put a horsehead in her bed.
Hillary: I Might Take Fight Over Florida And Michigan To Convention! 2009
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