horsebound

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

horse +‎ bound

Adjective[edit]

horsebound (not comparable)

  1. Dependent on horses.
    • 1971, Canadian Jersey Breeder, volume 26, page 13:
      It is one thing to point with pride to that fact modern farmer feeds 45 or 50 people while his horsebound forefathers fed only nine or so.
    • 2012, Doug Saunders, The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?[1]:
      The paintings he chose to adorn his parliamentary office suite were not what you'd expect from the leader of the radically anti-Muslim Party For Freedom (PVV): not the heroic horsebound realism of an archconservative revanchist, nor the stark abstractions of a freemarket libertarian.
    • 2016, Frederick E. Hoxie, The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History[2]:
      Being more mobile changed everything for those who adopted a horse-bound life.

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