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HORSECLOTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does horsecloth mean?
• HORSECLOTH (noun)
The noun HORSECLOTH has 1 sense:
1. a cloth for the trapping of a horse
Familiarity information: HORSECLOTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cloth for the trapping of a horse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("horsecloth" is a kind of...):
caparison; housing; trapping (stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse)
Context examples
The morning had worn away in these inquiries, and I was sitting on the step of an empty shop at a street corner, near the market-place, deliberating upon wandering towards those other places which had been mentioned, when a fly-driver, coming by with his carriage, dropped a horsecloth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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