forehorse

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ horse.

Noun

forehorse (plural forehorses)

1. The foremost horse in a team of horses; a lead horse
   • 1983, Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William Matthews, The Diary of Samuel Pepys:

     But the principal difficulties of travel within the capital were those created by the sheer volume of the traffic. The city's regulations prohibiting the entry of ironshod vehicles and requiring draymen to lead their forehorses were ignored.

   • 2012, Charles Brockden Brown, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist:

     Scarcely had they passed the spot where I rested, when some one leaped from beneath the hedge, and seized the head of the forehorses. Another called upon the coachman to stop, and threatened him with instant death if he disobeyed.

   • 2013, Alison Weir, Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World:

     On the forehorses rode two chariot men; and on the four others, four henchmen in black gowns.

Anagrams

• foreshore