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Definition: Wooden Horse |
Wooden HorseNoun1. A large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Wooden Horse (The). Babieca. Peter of Provence had a wooden horse named Babieca. (See Clavileno.) "This very day may be seen in the king's armoury the identical peg with which Peter of Provence turned his Wooden Horse, which carried him through the air. It is rather bigger than the pole of a coach, and stands near Babieca's saddle."- Don Quixote, pt. i. bk. iv. 19. Wooden Horse (To ride the). To sail aboard a ship, brig, or boat, etc. "He felt a little out of the way for riding the wooden horse."- Sir Walter Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | WOODEN HORSE. To fide the wooden horse was a military punishment formerly in use. This horse consisted of two or more planks about eight feet long, fixed together so as to form a sharp ridge or angle, which answered to the body of the horse. It was suppor. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonym: Wooden HorseSynonym: Trojan Horse (n). (additional references) |
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Scourge | Triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture. |
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Crosswords: Wooden Horse |
| Specialty definitions using "Wooden Horse": Crampart ♦ Greek Gift ♦ Horse. ♦ Malambruno ♦ Peter of Provence ♦ Sinon ♦ TROY ♦ Wooden Horse of Troy, Wooden Mare. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Wooden Horse (1950) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wooden horse | 75 |
wooden horse of troy | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "Wooden Horse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kalë troje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Basque | zaldiko-maldiko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 木馬 (horse used in gymnastics, rocking horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | もくば (horse used in gymnastics, rocking horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cabbyl maidjey (hobby horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Occitan | cavalet de fusta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oodenway orsehay троянский конь (Grecian horse, trojan horse). (various references) trähäst. (various references) truva atı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Equidae, Equus ferus f.caballus, RM:chaval. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-n-o-o-o-r-s-w" | |
-3 letters: endowers, hoedowns, honorees, nowheres, reendows, reshowed, rosewood, showered, whoreson, woodener, woodhens, worsened. | |
-4 letters: dehorns, downers, endorse, endower, hoedown, honored, honoree, nowhere, onshore, reendow, reshone, reshown, resowed, shrewed, sonhood, swooned, swooner, whereon, wonders, woodhen, wooshed. | |
-5 letters: dehorn, denser, donees, donors, dowers, downer, dowser, drones, drowns, drowse, enders, endows, erenow, erodes, heders, hereon, heroes, herons. | |
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