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horsebound

horsebound adjective: dependent on horses.

Adjective

horsebound (not comparable)

  1. Dependent on horses.
    • It is one thing to point with pride to that fact modern farmer feeds 45 or 50 people while his horsebound forefathers fed only nine or so.1971, Canadian Jersey Breeder, volume 26, page 13
    • The paintings he chose to adorn his parliamentary office suite were not what you'd expect from the leader of the radically anti-Muslim Party For Freedom (PVV): not the heroic horsebound realism of an archconservative revanchist, nor the stark abstractions of a freemarket libertarian.2012, Doug Saunders, The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?

Origin of horsebound

From horse + bound.

Questions about horsebound

What does horsebound mean?
Horsebound means dependent on horses.
What part of speech is horsebound?
Horsebound is an adjective.

Words near horsebound in the dictionary

  1. horsebarns
  2. horsebean
  3. horsebeans
  4. horseboat
  5. horseboats
  6. horsebound
  7. horsebox
  8. horseboxes
  9. horseboy
  10. horseboys
  11. horsebread

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