Search for: Horses
7381 Etymology dictionary, p. spicy (adj.).2
… of horses. Related: Spiciness .
7382 Etymology dictionary, p. spill (n.).2
1845, colloquial, "a throw or fall from a horse," from spill (v.). The meaning "the spilling of a liquid; amount of spilled stuff" is from 1848.
7383 Etymology dictionary, p. spindrift (n.).2
… race-horses. It is popularly regarded as related to spin (v.) "go rapidly."
7384 Etymology dictionary, p. splash (v.).2
… the horse's feet, is attested from 1826 (compare dashboard ). Splash-down (n.) in the "landing of a spacecraft in the ocean" sense is attested from 1961.
7385 Etymology dictionary, p. spur (v.).2
… a horse to gallop, strike or prick (a horse) with spurs," also "incite, encourage" someone to do something, from spur (n.). Related: Spurred; spurring. Old English had spyrian …
7386 Etymology dictionary, p. spur (n.).2
… a horse" (related to spurnan "to kick"), from Proto-Germanic *spuron (source also of Old Norse spori, Middle Dutch spore, Dutch spoor, Old High German sporo, German …
7387 Etymology dictionary, p. *sta-.3
… .2) "horse kept for breeding;" stylite; subsist; substance; substitute; substitution; superstition; system; Taurus; understand .
7388 Etymology dictionary, p. stable (n.).2
… where horses or cows are kept, building for domestic animals," from Old French stable, estable "a stable, stall" (Modern French étable ), also applied to cowsheds …
7389 Etymology dictionary, p. stable (n.).3
… of horses belonging to a particular (racing) stable" is attested from 1570s; the transferred sense of "group of fighters under same management" is from 1897 …
7390 Etymology dictionary, p. stable (v.).2
… for horses" is attested by late 12c. as a surname. A different Middle English stablen meant "put in a certain place or position; institute, enact, establish," from …
7391 Etymology dictionary, p. stage (n.).5
The meaning "single step in a sequence or gradual process, stage of a journey" is by late 14c. Hence "roadside stopping place, place of rest on a journey or where horses are changed" (c. 1600), the sense in stagecoach .
7392 Etymology dictionary, p. stay (v.2).3
… , of horses. Hence to stay with "keep up with" (a competitor), by 1887, and phrase stay the course, originally (1858) in reference to horses sustaining a strong pace …
7393 Etymology dictionary, p. stake (n.2).4
… a (horse) race," is recorded by 1690s (compare sweepstakes ). The meaning "an interest, something to gain or lose" is by 1580s; hence have a stake in "have an interest …
7394 Etymology dictionary, p. stalking (adj.).3
… stalking-horse (1510s) in literal use was a horse draped in trappings and trained to allow a fowler to conceal himself behind it to get within range of game …
7395 Etymology dictionary, p. stallion (n.).2
… ), "male horse kept for breeding purposes," from Anglo-French estaloun, Old French estalon "stallion, uncastrated male horse" (Modern French étalon ), from Frankish …
7396 Etymology dictionary, p. stampede (n.).2
… or horses, from Mexican Spanish estampida, a particular use of Spanish estampida "an uproar, crash, loud report," from estamper "to stamp, press, pound," from Provençal …
7397 Etymology dictionary, p. standard (adj.).2
… of horses but originally of fowls. Standard time (1870) is that based on the local meridian in reference to Greenwich.
7398 Etymology dictionary, p. station-wagon (n.).2
… a horse-drawn conveyance that took passengers (and their baggage) from and to railroad stations (1894). See station (n.) + wagon (n.).
7399 Etymology dictionary, p. steed (n.).2
… great horse" (as distinguished from a palfrey ), "a spirited war horse." Obsolete from 16c. except in poetic, rhetorical, or jocular language.
7400 Etymology dictionary, p. steeplechase (n.).2
"horse race across open country, over ditches, hedges, and other obstacles, by whatever way the rider chooses," 1793 (earlier steeplehunt, 1772), from steeple + chase …