Horse Block

Word HORSE BLOCK
Character 11
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Definitions and meanings of "Horse Block"

What do we mean by horse block?

A platform or steps used for getting on or off a horse, in modern times, sometimes a vehicle.

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The word "horse-block" in example sentences

Turning a corner he nearly ran against Barney himself, who was sitting on a horse-block, enjoying a pipe and the sun. ❋ A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton (N/A)

It is the lower portion of a stone cross with a square pedestal, found some years ago at Haddenham, in the Isle of Ely, where it was used as a horse-block; the inscription on the pedestal is in Roman capitals, except the E, which is Saxon: ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Hope; there were twisted the threads of the rotten cable of Despair; there Faith built her cross; there Love vivified the heart, and Hate dyed it; there Remorse sharpened his tooth; there Jealousy tinged his eye with emerald; there was quarried the horse-block from which dark ❋ Various (N/A)

A horse-block; steps of wood or stone, made to ascend and descend from a horse. ❋ James Jennings (N/A)

Sitting near the door, on a stone which once served as a horse-block for equestrians, Risler watches with a smile the exit from the factory. ❋ Various (N/A)

Neither succeeded in getting the conversation just where they wanted it before Squire Perkins 'apple orchard came into view, and Dan was obliged to halt his old nag by the horse-block built out from the white fence and assist Jane to alight. ❋ Frederick Vining Fisher (N/A)

Yet, though this shrinking was combined with exceedingly delicate health, she never shirked her duty, but went steadily on with housekeeping, farming, nursing, or public speaking, just as the Lord gave it to her to do -- even consenting to stand upon a horse-block at Huddersfield to address a crowd whom otherwise she could not have reached. ❋ Brigadier Margaret Allen (N/A)

It was an amazed parent that caught sight of her son and heir scrambling off the back of his steed onto the horse-block in front of the church, clad in short swimming trunks and much bluing. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

His buggy wheel protested stridently as he cramped the vehicle at the horse-block, reassuring Mrs. Bowers that his natural force was not abated; and his flight down town affronted the ordinance against reckless driving which he himself had framed. ❋ Mark Lee Luther (N/A)

Lacey Rountree was gone home to the Far Cove, and Wade lingered in talk with Grandpap Lusk a while at the horse-block, then got on his mule and, with florid good-byes, rode back home, evidently at rest as to Judith. ❋ Alice MacGowan (N/A)

It was brought here from Haddenham, where it had been used as a horse-block, by Mr. Bentham. ❋ W. D. Sweeting (N/A)

Once, even, she went out upon the sidewalk in front of the flat and sat down for a moment upon the horse-block there. ❋ Unknown (1920)

She remembered how she got out of the hack and stood for a moment upon the horse-block, looking up at McTeague's windows. ❋ Unknown (1920)

She could not help remembering the day when she had been driven up to that horse-block in a hack. ❋ Unknown (1920)

She got up from the horse-block and stood again on the corner of the alley, watching and listening. ❋ Unknown (1920)

The idea of Maggie sitting alone by the pond roused an habitual fear in Mrs. Tulliver’s mind, and she mounted the horse-block to satisfy herself by a sight of that fatal child, while Tom walked—not very quickly—on his way toward her. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Father was waiting by the horse-block to help them out. ❋ Helen Fuller Orton (1913)

Beldora went off to fetch the nag, and Aunt Polly Ann accompanied the guest to the horse-block, laying an anxious hand on her arm. ❋ Unknown (1912)

The horse with the craning neck, the liveried servant at the bridle, the listless young gentleman with the shiny boots reclining on the horse-block, and above him, under the portico, the grand lady whose laugh had made me sad. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

By the horse-block stood a very black and very chubby pony. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

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