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Webster 1913 Edition
Cockhorse
Cock′horseˊ
,Noun.
1.
A child’s rocking-horse.
Ride a
cockhorse
to Banbury cross. Mother Goose.
2.
A high or tall horse.
[R.]
Cock′horseˊ
,Adj.
1.
Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
2.
Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.
Our painted fools and
cockhorse
peasantry. Marlowe.