Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word HORSES

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Definitions of HORSES

1. plural of horse.
2. (slang) Horsepower.
3. inflection of horse

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Examples of Using HORSES in a Sentence

• The American Quarter Horse is the most popular breed in the United States, and the American Quarter Horse Association is the largest breed registry in the world, with almost three million living American Quarter Horses registered in 2014.
• Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being as wild as untamed horses, and were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, the Foloi oak forest in Elis, and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia.
• Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot.
• Equidae (commonly known as the horse family) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, asses, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils.
• Horseshoes are available in a wide variety of materials and styles, developed for different types of horses and for the work they do.
• Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE.
• A horse breed is a selectively bred population of domesticated horses, often with pedigrees recorded in a breed registry.
• Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed.
• Tack is equipment or accessories equipped on horses and other equines in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
• Commonly used for prodding horses or cattle, knouts were also used for flagellation as a corporal punishment in Russian history.
• The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals, including chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and cattle, starting around 11,000 years ago.
• It was traditionally populated by the butteri, mounted cattle herders who rode horses fitted with one of two distinctive styles of saddle, the scafarda and the bardella.
• Members of the Sahaptin language group, the Nimíipuu were the dominant people of the Columbia Plateau for much of that time, especially after acquiring the horses that led them to breed the Appaloosa horse in the 18th century.
• A fixture of the mid-1970s underground rock music scene in New York City, Smith signed to Arista in April 1975 and recorded Horses with her band at Electric Lady Studios that September.
• The order includes about 17 living species divided into three families: Equidae (horses, asses, and zebras), Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses), and Tapiridae (tapirs).
• In both sources, Sleipnir is Odin's steed, is the child of Loki and Svaðilfari, is described as the best of all horses, and is sometimes ridden to the location of Hel.
• They can be any color, with bay, gray, chestnut and black being the most common, though the breed also includes few roan and tobiano pinto horses.
• It is reputed that the name derived from a pub that stood at the centre of the town, then known as Wait Lane End, where the stage-coach horses waited to change places with the team that pulled the coach up and over Portsdown Hill.
• Zebras share the genus Equus with horses and asses, the three groups being the only living members of the family Equidae.
• Butler sells 436 men, women, children, and infants, all of whom are kept in stalls meant for horses at a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia, for weeks beforehand.

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