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HORSEPOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horsepond mean? 

HORSEPOND (noun)
  The noun HORSEPOND has 1 sense:

1. a pond for watering horsesplay

  Familiarity information: HORSEPOND used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HORSEPOND (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A pond for watering horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("horsepond" is a kind of...):

pond; pool (a small lake)


 Context examples 


I wonder where that boat was built! (laughing heartily); I would not venture over a horsepond in it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)



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