Horse vs. Knight
Difference Between Horse and Knight
Horsenoun
Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
Knightnoun
A warrior, especially of the Middle Ages.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round TableHorsenoun
A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.Knightnoun
A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
Horsenoun
(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.Knightnoun
Nowadays, a person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
Horsenoun
Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.Knightnoun
(chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
Horsenoun
The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
Now just remind me how the horse moves again?Knightnoun
A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Horsenoun
(slang) A large person.
Every linebacker they have is a real horse.Knightverb
(transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
The king knighted the young squire.Horsenoun
(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
Knightverb
To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
Horsenoun
Equipment with legs.
Knightnoun
originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
Horsenoun
In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top .
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.Knightnoun
a chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
Horsenoun
A frame with legs, used to support something.
a clothes horse; a sawhorseKnightverb
raise (someone) to knighthood;
The Beatles were knightedHorsenoun
(nautical) Type of equipment.
Horsenoun
A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
Horsenoun
A breastband for a leadsman.
Horsenoun
An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
Horsenoun
A jackstay.
Horsenoun
(mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
Horsenoun
(slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
Horsenoun
(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E).
Horsenoun
A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
Horsenoun
horseplay; tomfoolery
Horsenoun
Heroin drug.
Alright, mate, got any horse?Horseverb
(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
Horseverb
(transitive) To provide with a horse.
Horseverb
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
Horseverb
To sit astride of; to bestride.
Horseverb
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
Horseverb
To take or carry on the back.
Horseverb
To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
Horsenoun
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
Horsenoun
a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
Horsenoun
troops trained to fight on horseback;
500 horse led the attackHorsenoun
a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
Horsenoun
a chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
Horseverb
provide with a horse or horses
