Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
horse-pile .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pile of salted fish heaped up to drain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Canada, dialect A
pile ofsalted fish heaped up todrain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I thought of the amber eyes of the waterhorse, and wondered which others were true.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Wi 'my own eyes I saw this woman call up a waterhorse from the waters of the Evil Loch, to do her bidding!
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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And so the waterhorse kept his word, and returned the man to the bank near his home.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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So, the waterhorse being a kindly sort, takes himself to the bank of the loch near the house of a man with the reputation of a builder.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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The waterhorse of Loch Garve, like so many of his kind, had stolen a young girl who came to the loch to draw water, and carried her away to live in the depths of the loch and be his wife.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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I had felt the emotions of the crowd turn against me as the woman spoke; all I needed now was for this man to tell the court about the waterhorse.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Most pointless adventure: Duplicated a character and had to kill off one version with a carnivorous waterhorse.
NaNoWriMo is over! 2009
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Most pointless adventure: Duplicated a character and had to kill off one version with a carnivorous waterhorse.
NaNoWriMo is over! 2009
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Of course, it also yields such awkward situations as a character who was entertaining, but going nowhere, so I had to duplicate him and then kill off his first manifestation with a conveniently-timed carnivorous waterhorse.
NaNoWriMo is over! 2009
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Of course, it also yields such awkward situations as a character who was entertaining, but going nowhere, so I had to duplicate him and then kill off his first manifestation with a conveniently-timed carnivorous waterhorse.
NaNoWriMo 2009 2009
hernesheir commented on the word waterhorse
This I would never have guessed.
September 6, 2014