Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To duck in a horse-pond.
- noun A pond for watering horses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pond for watering horses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pond forwatering horses .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pond for watering horses
Etymologies
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Examples
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Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond.
Supernatural Does Ghouls Dark Worlds Club 2009
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Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond.
Archive 2009-04-01 Dark Worlds Club 2009
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If he's done any harm, tell him so; and if it's worse than harm, souse him in a horsepond; I've no objection: But I don't like to see a man turned out of a room; it's very unmannerly; and I did not think Hal would do such a thing. '
Camilla 2008
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Willet had been his own pilot, he would have walked into a deep horsepond within a few hundred yards of his own house, and would certainly have terminated his career in that ignoble sphere of action.
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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Jack, that thou less deservest praise than a horsepond; and I wish
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Their only child, a little girl not three years old at the time, ran out of the house alone in her little white pinafore, and, toddling across the grass of a terraced garden, pitched herself over a low wall head first into the horsepond in the yard below.
Amy Foster 2006
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The least I will do, shall be, to send her home well soused in and dragged through our deepest horsepond.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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But if my deerest younge lady should come to harm, and plese your Honner, the horsepond at the Blew Bore — but Lord preserve us all from all bad mischeff, and all bad endes, I pray the
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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You ought to be ducked in the horsepond, you rotter!
Ulysses 2003
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I ask for a horsepond or a ditch, and you tell me the cistern's out.
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