cockhorse

See also: cock-horse

English

Adjective

cockhorse (comparative more cockhorse, superlative most cockhorse)

1. Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
2. Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.
   • (Can we date this quote by Marlowe and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry.

Noun

cockhorse (plural cockhorses)

1. (archaic) A child's rocking horse.
   • (Can we date this quote by Mother Goose and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross.

2. (obsolete) A high or tall 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “cockhorse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• horse cock, horsecock