snowhorses

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
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