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The word horse has a number of uses:

Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as:

horse

A horse is a large ungulate mammal of the equine family.
Horse meat is consumed by animals and humans.
Equipment build roughly with a horse's silhouette such as:
- punishment horse,
- vaulting horse in gymnastics,
- sawhorse and shave horse used for woodworking.
"Horse" is the name of a game played with a basketball.
A slang term for the hard drug heroin.
A metonym for a cavalry unit, sometimes even in the official name (as of a mounted regiment).
A horse in the game of chess is an informal name for the knight; its equivalent is the only common name in various languages.
Horses is an album by Patti Smith.
"Iron horse" is an archaic term for a locomotive.
H.O.R.S.E. is a form of poker.
HORSE the Band is an experimental hardcore band.
Horse is a zodiac sign in Chinese Astrology.

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Category: Disambiguation Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 nugget For other uses, see Horse (disambiguation). ... Llamas such as this, which have two toes, are artiodactylas -- even toed ungulates Ungulates (meaning roughly hoofed or hoofed animal) make up several orders of mammals, of which six to eight survive. ... Orders Subclass Multituberculata (extinct) Plagiaulacida Cimolodonta Subclass Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Subclass Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Eutheria (includes extinct ancestors)/Placentalia (excludes extinct ancestors) Afrosoricida Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata (extinct) Perissodactyla Pholidota Plesiadapiformes... horse, see Horse (disambiguation). ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Spanking (or smacking, whacking, etc. ... The vault, formerly known as vaulting horse, is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. ... Artists can use woodworking to create delicate sculptures. ... Artists can use woodworking to create delicate sculptures. ... The game Horse is played on a basketball half-court. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 For other uses, see Basketball (disambiguation). ... Slang is the non-standard or non-dialectal use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ... Sildenafil citrate, sold under the names Viagra, Revatio and (in the Indian subcontinent) Caverta, is a drug used to treat male erectile dysfunction (impotence) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), developed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. ... Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ... Cavalry is also a common misspelling of the Biblical hill Calvary. ... Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players. ... The knight moves in an L shape. ... Horses is the debut album by Patti Smith released in November of 1975 (see 1975 in music). ... Stark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smiths first album, Horses, was a photo by Robert Mapplethorpe. ... In language, an archaism is the deliberate use of an older form that has fallen out of current use. ... A locomotive (from lat. ... H.O.R.S.E is a form of poker commonly played at the high stakes tables at casinos. ... // This article is about the card game. ... HORSE the Band is an experimental hardcore band that uses synthesizer to get a very Nintendo-influenced sound. ... Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is a faster and heavier version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often passionate songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ... The Horse is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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Horse (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (194 words)
	A horse is a large ungulate mammal of the equine family.
	A horse in the game of chess is an informal name for the knight; its equivalent is the only common name in various languages.
	HORSE the Band is an experimental hardcore band.

Horse - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (10118 words)
	Horses have long been one of the most economically important domesticated animals, and have played an important role in the transport of people and cargo for thousands of years.
	All horses move naturally with four basic gaits; these are referred to as the walk, the trot/jog, the canter/lope ("canter" in English riding, "lope" in Western), and the gallop.
	Many horse owners are interested in the well being and welfare of horses, and are allied with animal rights advocates and animal welfare advocates in believing that genuine abuse of horses should end.

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