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snowhorse

snowhorse noun: a visual representation of a horse made from snow.

snowhorse: a visual representation of a horse made from snow
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Noun

snowhorse (plural snowhorses)

  1. A visual representation of a horse made from snow.
    • One sees instead a small snowhorse / Made by children one dull afternoon, / Though now it gleams like Triton’s foal / New-born from the unblemished foam.1958, Alan Brilliant, editor, Pan: A Quarterly of Poetry, New York: Igal Roodenko
    • Little boy, house, Christmas trees, and snowman riding a snowhorse are depicted.1991, Clara Johnson Scroggins, Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments: A Collector’s Guide, Hallmark Cards, →ISBN, page 102
  2. A horse bred or used for service in the winter.
    • Longview Farms, now operated by Loula Long Combs, better known throughout the United States as a breeder and exhibitor of thoroughbred snowhorses, is disposing of its 758 fine grade dairy cattle and replacing them with 700 beef cattle which need less attention.1944 April 5, “Famous Dairy Herd Auctioned”, in The Parsons Sun, volume 72, number 219, Parsons, Kan., page 6, column 4
    • Our boy Kent was with us. The mushy roads, the prancing snowhorses, the treacherous patches of ice on the highway, bothered him not a whit.1951 January 27, Ray Nelson, “Beautiful Calm of the Children”, in The Herald-Journal, volume 42, number 43, Logan, Ut., page 2, column 1

Examples of snowhorse in a sentence

  • Other times, we’d make snowdragons, and snowhorses and a big pile of snowballs.1992, Isabelle Knockwood, Gillian Thomas, Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at...
  • Sometime in 1977 my father takes a series of photographs of me sitting on a snowhorse we’d just made, which amuses my parents when they realize that I’m eating the snow.2005, Joanne Merriam, The Glaze from Breaking, Stride Publications, →ISBN, page 56:
  • “Are they making snowmen?” asked Nora. / “Snowmen, snowwomen, snowmermaids, snowhorses—anything you can think of,” said Maddie.2012, V. J. Chambers, Dancing Days (The Helicon Muses, Book One), Punk Rawk Books, →ISBN, page 73:
  • They are equipped to completely rebuild and overhaul your present motor and return it to your^([sic]) purring like a kitten and performing like a snowhorse.1957 January 14, “Hydramatic Transmissions Due Check Every 8-10,000 Miles, Says Expert”, in Shreveport Journal, volume 63, Shreveport, La....

Forms of snowhorse

pluralsnowhorses

Origin of snowhorse

From snow + horse.

Questions about snowhorse

What does snowhorse mean?
Snowhorse means a visual representation of a horse made from snow.
How do you use snowhorse in a sentence?
Other times, we’d make snowdragons, and snowhorses and a big pile of snowballs.
What part of speech is snowhorse?
Snowhorse is a noun.
What is the plural of snowhorse?
The plural of snowhorse is snowhorses.

Words near snowhorse in the dictionary

  1. snowguns
  2. snowhole
  3. snowholes
  4. snowhook
  5. snowhooks
  6. snowhorse
  7. snowhorses
  8. snowhouse
  9. snowhouses
  10. snowhow
  11. snowicane

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