Search for: Horses
7401 Etymology dictionary, p. stepping (n.).2
… a horse-block or upping-stone (1837).
7402 Etymology dictionary, p. stepper (n.).2
"horse with a showy gait," 1835, agent noun from step (v.).
7403 Etymology dictionary, p. stirrup (n.).2
… a horse," etymologically "climbing rope," from stige "a climbing, ascent" (from Proto-Germanic *stigaz "climbing;" see stair ) + rap (see rope (n.)). Originally a looped rope …
7404 Etymology dictionary, p. stock (n.2).7
… , especially horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals, it is recorded from 1510s; hence livestock, stockyard. "The application to cattle is primarily a …
7405 Etymology dictionary, p. stogie (n.).2
… strong horses).
7406 Etymology dictionary, p. stray (v.).2
… a horse without a master, also of persons, perhaps literally "go about the streets," from estree "route, highway," from Late Latin via strata "paved road" (see street …
7407 Etymology dictionary, p. stratum (n.).2
… , bedspread, horse-blanket; pavement," noun uses of neuter of stratus "prostrate, prone," past participle of sternere "to spread out, lay down, stretch out" (from nasalized …
7408 Etymology dictionary, p. straw (n.).6
… , the horse's, or the elephant's), an image in use in English by 1755.
7409 Etymology dictionary, p. street-car (n.).2
"passenger car for city travel," 1859, horse-drawn, later cable-powered, American English, from street (n.) + car (n.).
7410 Etymology dictionary, p. stride (n.).4
… (especially horses), it is attested by 1610s; hence by 19c. "regular uniform movement in a race," hence colloquial hit (one's) stride "attain in action the state or …
7411 Etymology dictionary, p. stride (v.).2
… " (a horse), from Proto-Germanic *stridanan (source also of Middle Low German strede "stride, strive;" Old Saxon stridian, Danish stride, Swedish strida "to fight," Dutch …
7412 Etymology dictionary, p. strigil (n.).2
… "scraper, horse-comb," from stringere (1) "draw along a surface, graze, touch lightly; strip off, pluck off, cut away; clip, prune; lay bare, unsheathe," figuratively "waste …
7413 Etymology dictionary, p. strop (n.).2
… a horse's harness."
7414 Etymology dictionary, p. stud (n.2).2
[horse used for breeding] Middle English stode "a herd of horses; place where horses are kept" for breeding or any purpose, from Old English stod, from Proto-Germanic …
7415 Etymology dictionary, p. stud (n.2).3
This is reconstructed to be from PIE root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm," with derivatives meaning "place or thing that is standing" (source also of Old Church Slavonic stado "herd," Lithuanian stodas "a drove of horses").
7416 Etymology dictionary, p. stud (n.2).4
… racing horses" (by 1793). The further-extended meaning "man who is highly active and proficient sexually" is attested by 1895, also extended to dogs. The meaning …
7417 Etymology dictionary, p. stud (n.2).5
Studdery "place for keeping a stud of horses" is from 1580s. Stud-poker (1864) is said to be from stud-horse poker, but that phrase seems to be not found earlier than 1876.
7418 Etymology dictionary, p. stutter (v.).5
… stutty horse, one faltering or inclined to stumble (c. 1400). Simple stutt (v.) was reduced to dialect by c. 1700. The noun is attested from 1854, "marked stammer, broken …
7419 Etymology dictionary, p. summer (n.2).2
… "pack horse," from Vulgar Latin *saumarius, from Late Latin sagmarius "pack horse," from sagma "packsaddle" (see sumpter ). Also in Middle English "pack horse" (c. 1300 …
7420 Etymology dictionary, p. sumpter (n.).2
… pack horse," from Old French sommetier "pack-horse driver," from Vulgar Latin *sagmatarius "a pack horse driver," from Late Latin sagmat- "a pack, burden," stem of sagma …