dishorse
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dishorse (third-person singular simple present dishorses, present participle dishorsing, simple past and past participle dishorsed)
- (archaic, intransitive) To dismount from a horse.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC:
- He burst his lance against a forest bough
Dishorsed himself, and rose again
- (transitive) To unseat from a horse.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dishorse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)