WHITE HORSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white horse mean? 

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

1. a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE HORSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

white horse; whitecap

Hypernyms ("white horse" is a kind of...):

moving ridge; wave (one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water))

 Context examples 

On the second day Iron Hans equipped him as a white knight, and gave him a white horse.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

So saying, Sir Nigel mounted the white horse of the Spanish cavalier, and rode quietly forth from his concealment with his three companions behind him, Alleyne leading his master's own steed by the bridle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The words were scarce out of his mouth when there came a clatter of loose stones, the sharp clink of trotting hoofs, and a dark-faced cavalier, mounted upon a white horse, burst through the bushes and rode swiftly down the valley from the end which was farthest from the Spanish camp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)