A horse suitable for riding. Obsolete.

A horse used for general-purpose riding. In later use: spec. a horse of a medium-sized breed characterized by strength, stamina, and a high-stepping…

A horse, esp. one used for riding; a steed. Also figurative.

A horse or other animal for riding, a mount.

(a) a horse for hire; = sense A. 1b (now historical); (b) a horse for general riding; = sense A. 1a.

From the 16th cent. used only poetic or rhetorically for: A horse, usually one for riding; often with eulogistic adjectives. (Also sometimes…

One of a small but strong breed of horses peculiar to Galloway; hence a small-sized horse, esp. for riding. Also Galloway-mare, Galloway-nag.

= rouncy, n.1

= nag, n.1

(a) a horse which is used for riding; spec. an American saddle horse; (b) a wooden stand for a riding saddle.

A horse used for riding.

A horse (usually of a specified kind or quality) for riding on. Now rare.

A horse, esp. one of a calm disposition, used for general riding on a road, path, etc., as distinct from cross-country, military, or other kind of…

In sense 1, as hack horse, hack mare, etc.

A horse for riding; a mount. In later use with modifying adjective.

The name of Alexander the Great's celebrated charger; applied humorously as a name for any riding-horse.

†(a) Scottish a stud-horse, stallion (obsolete); (b) ? U.S. a riding-horse.

Originally colloquial. A horse, bicycle, etc., on which a person is mounted or which a person rides or drives; a horse, etc., provided for riding.

U.S. colloquial. A horse for riding; spec. an American saddle horse.

Scottish. A horse used for riding. rare.