WOODEN HORSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wooden Horse mean? 

• WOODEN HORSE (noun)
  The noun WOODEN HORSE has 1 sense:

1. a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War

  Familiarity information: WOODEN HORSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODEN HORSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Trojan Horse; Wooden Horse

Instance hypernyms:

figure (a model of a bodily form (especially of a person))

Domain region:

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

 Context examples 

I had bought a spotted wooden horse over-night as a parting gift to little Wilkins Micawber—that was the boy—and a doll for little Emma.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)