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white horse
1. The figure of a white horse: see horse n. 24. Also as the sign, and hence the name, of an inn.
1647in Nightingale Ejected of 1662 (1911) II. 909 Send one of Yor servants to the White horse wthout Creeple gate.
2. A crested wave: see horse n. 24 b.
1849Kingsley Let. in Life vii. (1879) I. 168 The bay is now curling and writhing in white horses under a smoking south-wester. 1888Rider Haggard Mr. Meeson's Will v, Looking at the ‘white horses’ chasing each other across the watery plain.
3. Local name for a species of ray (fish).
1710Sibbald Hist. Fife 51 Raia aspera, the White Horse.
4. The West Indian shrub Portlandia grandiflora (N.O. Rubiaceæ), with large white flowers, cultivated in hot-houses.
1866Treas. Bot. 1232/1.
5. A tough sinewy substance lying between the upper jaw and junk of a sperm-whale.
1846J. R. Browne Etchings of Whaling Cruise 130 The white, hard blocks, containing but little oil, and which are found near the small, and at the flukes, are called ‘white horse’. 1851H. Melville Moby Dick II. xcix. 173 White-horse,..obtained from the tapering part of the fish, and also from the thicker portions of his flukes. 1874C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals 312.
6. Mining. (local.) See quot. and horse n. 11.
1886J. Barrowman Sc. Mining Terms 72 White horse, intruded white trap in a coal seam. |