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ˈhorse-ˌjockey
a. One hired to ride a horse in a race. (Now usually simply jockey.)
1782Wolcott (P. Pindar) Odes R. Acad. i. i. Wks. 1812 I. 15 My Cousin Pindar, in his Odes Applauded Horse-jockeys and Gods. 1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 66 The parties were both horse-jockeys. 1858in Hughes Tom Brown Pref. to ed. 6, Horse-jockeys have learnt to be wiser.
attrib.1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxiv, His horse-jockey jokes and prize-ring slang.
b. U.S. One who traffics in horses. Hence ˈhorse-ˌjockeying vbl. n.
1744A. Hamilton Itinerarium (1907) 31 May 3, I met one Matthew Baker, a horse-jockey. 1783in S. E. Baldwin Simeon Baldwin (1919) 120 The conversation was upon News—horsejockeying—& other indifferent subjects. 1784in Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. (1930) XXIII. 204 Ship Building is carried on with Vigor in this State, & the Horse Jockey business flourishes. 1792J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampshire III. ix. 144 Few [horses] live and die on the plantations where they are bred; some are exported..; but the most are continually shifted from one owner to another, by means of a set of contemptible wretches called horse-jockies. 1866‘Mark Twain’ Lett. fr. Hawaii (1967) 50 The Kanaka horse jockey is fertile in imagination and elastic in conscience. Ibid. 288 Brown bought a horse from a native at Waiohinu for twelve dollars, but happening to think of the horse-jockeying propensities of the race, he removed the saddle and found that..recent hard riding had polished most of the hide off his back. |