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Definition: Post Horse |
Post HorseNoun1. A horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Post HorseSynonym: poster (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Carrier | Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Post Horse |
| English words defined with "post horse": hitching post ♦ Post hackney, poster ♦ rein, rein in ♦ starting post. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "post horse": HANDICAPPER, HARNESS RACING ♦ LEAD PONY RIDER ♦ PATROL JUDGE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "post horse": Palfrey. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Frost-covered post horse, cooling off after a long drive on the Great Siberian Highway. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "post horse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kalë poste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пощенски кон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | posta ló. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 駅伝 (stagecoach), 伝馬 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | て"ま (demon, evil spirit), えきで" (stagecoach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostpay orsehay почтовая лошадь (post-horse). (various references) poštanski konj. (various references) caballo de posta. (various references) posthäst (poster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hoopsters. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-o-o-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: hoopster, hotpress, orthoses, reshoots, sheroots, shooters, soothers, stoopers, strophes. | |
-2 letters: hoopers, hooters, horstes, poorest, poshest, posters, pothers, prestos, reshoot, respots, sheroot, shooter, soother, soothes, stooper, stopers, strophe, thorpes. | |
-3 letters: ephors, estops, hooper, hooter, hopers, horses, horste, horsts, others, pestos, photos, porose, posers, posher, posset, poster, pother, presto, prests, proses, prosos, ptoses, repots, reshot. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-o-o-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: apostrophes, orthoepists, peashooters, photoresist, priesthoods, showstopper, snapshooter, sporophytes, supersmooth. | |
+3 letters: apostrophise, arthroscopes, arthrospores, crapshooters, hyperostoses, hyperostosis, nephrostomes, orthopedists, phosphorites, photoresists, photosetters, photospheres, phytosterols, porterhouses, sharpshooter, showstoppers, snapshooters, spinsterhood, thermoscopes, trapshooters, tropospheres. | |
+4 letters: apostrophised, apostrophises, apostrophizes, arthroscopies, chemotropisms, heliotropisms, heterospories, heterosporous, iontophoreses, iontophoresis, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, nephrologists, orthopterists, phraseologist, phrenologists, sharpshooters, spinsterhoods, spirochetoses, spirochetosis, stereophonies, urethroscopes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 73 74 48 6F 72 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001000 01101111 01110010 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o s t   H o r s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0073 0074 0048 006F 0072 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081858624281848571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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