cockhorse

American  

[kok-hawrs] / ˈkɒkˌhɔrs /

noun

1. a child's rocking horse or hobbyhorse.

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cockhorse British  

/ ˌkɒkˈhɔːs /

noun

1. another name for rocking horse hobbyhorse

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Etymology

Origin of cockhorse

1530–40; originally father's leg, astride which child rides, from cock ¹ in sense “projection” + horse

Example Sentences

Yes, Mischief, Goddess multiform, Whene'er thou, witch-like, ridest the storm, Let Stanley ride cockhorse behind thee— No livelier lackey could they find thee.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Mr. Flamsteed has come in, and says he left Sir Isaac riding cockhorse upon the nebula, and poring over it as if it were a book.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene

We met a consort of fiddle-de-dees; We set them a cockhorse, and made them play The winning of Bullen, and Upsey-fires, And away to Tewin, away, away!

From Waverley by Scott, Walter, Sir

Away then went those pretty babes, Rejoicing at that tide, Rejoicing with a merry mind, They should on cockhorse ride.

From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various