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horse blankets

horse blankets is the plural of horse blanket.

Meaning of horse blanket

Noun

horse blanket (plural horse blankets)

  1. A blanket placed underneath the saddle of a horse.
    • They used to take a big horse-blanket and sit on the grass a little to the left of the lower end, where there is a dip in the ground, and where the occupied graves stop short and the ready-made ones are not ready.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 52
  2. A blanket worn by a horse (saddled or unsaddled) in cold weather.
  3. (US, historical, slang) Paper money consisting of large-sized notes or bills, printed from 1861 to 1928.
    • And then he had those great big, what they used to call "horse blankets." You know those bills? Yeah, that's what the young man gave him.1986, William Schneider, Moses Cruikshank, The Life I've Been Living

Questions about horse blankets

What is horse blankets the plural of?
Horse blankets is the plural of horse blanket.

Words near horse blankets in the dictionary

  1. horse artilleries
  2. horse artillery
  3. horse bean
  4. horse beans
  5. horse blanket
  6. horse blankets
  7. horse blob
  8. horse blobs
  9. horse bot flies
  10. horse bot fly
  11. horse box

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