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单词 horse-marine
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horse-marinen.1

Etymology: < horse n. + marine n.
Heraldry. Obsolete.
A seahorse.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > fish and sea creatures
luce1587
chabot1610
escallop-shell1610
lucy1660
escallop1671
horse-marine1705
1705 London Gaz. No. 4162/4 On a Torse a Demy Horse-Marine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

horse-marinen.2

/ˈhɔːsməˈriːn/
Etymology: < horse n. + marine n.
1. A marine mounted on horseback, or a cavalryman doing a marine's work.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > marine
marinera1450
marine1672
marine soldier1690
maltout1785
jolly1829
horse-marine1878
pongo1890
leatherneck1914
devil dog1918
jarhead1944
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > others
jousterc1330
knight1489
rutter1506
reister1521
reiter1556
ruiter1579
hargulater1581
lancer1590
lance1602
rutar1610
dragon1620
dragoon1622
right-hand man1626
dragooner1639
leaguerer1639
deli1667
Light Dragoon1700
uhlan1753
sabre1836
parachutist1837
sabreur1845
yellow leg1857
spahi1863
horse-marine1878
uhlaner1886
1878 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 225 This old sea-dog..organized a body of horse-marines to patrol the shore.
1886 Tinsley's Mag. Apr. 321 The 17th Lancers were once christened the ‘Horse marines’. Two troops of this showy corps were employed as marines on board the Hermione frigate during some severe fighting in the West Indies.
2. humorously. (plural) An imaginary corps of mounted marine soldiers, considered as a type of men out of their element; hence, singular a man doing work for which he is not fitted; a ‘landlubber’ on shipboard.tell that to the horse marines: see tell that to the horse marines at tell v. Phrases 10.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > instance of > that which is out of place > person(s)
horse-marine1823
a square peg in a round hole1836
misfit1860
odd-come-short1873
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. viii. 197 What the devil has a ship to do with horse's furniture?—Do you think we belong to the horse-marines.
1860 O. W. Holmes Sea Dial. 45 Belay y'r jaw, y' swab! y' hoss-marine!
1892 Wops the Waif i. 1 (Farmer) You'd better tell that to the hoss marines; I've lived a sight too long in Shoreditch to take that in.
1921 W. S. Maugham Circle ii. 65 Elizabeth: He's never even kissed me. Arnold: I'd try telling that to the horse marines if I were you.
3. ‘A man or youth who is engaged in leading and attending to the horse drawing a canal-boat’ ( Lab. Comm. Gloss. 1894).
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > associated shore-based personnel > [noun] > one who tows ships by rope > in charge of horse on canal
horse-marinec1850
c1850 [Correspt. writes ‘In general use on Regent's Canal’.]
c1860 [Used by a witness at the Lindsey Sessions, Lincolns.].
1881 Census-returns in Brit. Alm. Comp. (1885) 94.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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