horse block
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of horse block
First recorded in 1745–55
Example Sentences
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An obliging breeze caught it, and it scuttled off around the corner and would have been home ahead of me if it hadn’t collided with a horse block.
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There were the white-washed posts where the farm road began, the horse block where he bade the goose farmer good-by, but the farmhouse itself had disappeared.
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"Will you tell me why it has 'State Asylum' on the horse block?" she said.
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In ten minutes they drew up at the rude horse block and dismounted.
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The old captain had been in town all day, with "Bonny Doon" hitched to the horse block, and being full of "distempering draughts," as Shakspeare modestly terms it, and malicious bravery in the midst of the great storm, late in the evening he mounted his half-starved and as near frozen mare, to go home.
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