horse block

American  

noun

1. a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.

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Etymology

Origin of horse block

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

An obliging breeze caught it, and it scuttled off around the corner and would have been home ahead of me if it hadn’t collided with a horse block.

From Marjorie Dean College Freshman by Lester, Pauline

Blandford hitched his steaming horse to a sleet-covered horse block with a quick sigh of impatient sympathy over the animal and himself, and after fumbling in his pocket for a latchkey, opened the front door.

From The Argonauts of North Liberty by Harte, Bret

She made the child eat and drink, and went with her to her favorite rostrum when addressing her “company” of soldierly “boys”––the horse block.

From Jessica, the Heiress by Raymond, Evelyn

There were the white-washed posts where the farm road began, the horse block where he bade the goose farmer good-by, but the farmhouse itself had disappeared.

From Airship Andy or The Luck of a Brave Boy by Webster, Frank V.

The stone cap of the horse block is still preserved, and the telescope is in the possession of Germantown Academy.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank