white horse

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noun
  1. a white-topped wave; whitecap.

Origin of white horse

1
First recorded in 1640–50

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Other definitions for Whitehorse (2 of 2)

Whitehorse
[ hwahyt-hawrs, wahyt- ]

noun
  1. a town in and the capital of the Yukon Territory, in NW Canada.

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How to use white horse in a sentence

  • We pull up, with steaming cattle, at the old ‘white horse,’ where lunch is spread.

  • Talpers sought to detain him, but the Chinese hurried back to his old white horse and climbed clumsily into the saddle.

    Mystery Ranch | Arthur Chapman
  • The old white horse was switching and stamping and shuddering in his constant and futile battle against flies.

    Mystery Ranch | Arthur Chapman
  • A white horse, drawing a buggy, was trotting along the road by the side of the cornfield.

    Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon Anderson
  • But once the story of the white horse of Banba is told, ‘twill keep ringing in your ears till the dawn of your doom.’

British Dictionary definitions for white horse (1 of 2)

white horse

noun
  1. the outline of a horse carved into the side of a chalk hill, usually dating to the Neolithic, Bronze, or Iron Ages, such as that at Uffington, Berkshire

  2. (usually plural) a wave with a white broken crest

British Dictionary definitions for Whitehorse (2 of 2)

Whitehorse

/ (ˈwaɪtˌhɔːs) /


noun
  1. a town in NW Canada: capital of the Yukon Territory. Pop: 16 843 (2001)

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