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cock-horse

cock-horse is the alternative form of cockhorse.

Meaning of cockhorse

Noun

cockhorse (plural cockhorses)

  1. (archaic) A child's rocking horse.
    • Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross.a. 1744, unknown author, Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross (traditional nursery rhymes)

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Forms of cock-horse

pluralcock-horses

Questions about cock-horse

What is cock-horse the alternative form of?
Cock-horse is the alternative form of cockhorse.

Words near cock-horse in the dictionary

  1. cock-feather
  2. cock-feathers
  3. cock-fighting
  4. cock-holster
  5. cock-holsters
  6. cock-horse
  7. cock-horses
  8. cock-knocker
  9. cock-knockers
  10. cock-loft
  11. cock-of-the-rock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cock-horse (page history and authors); cockhorse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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