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

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Example Sentences

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horse block

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 Bret Harte

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 Evelyn Raymond

Hank, he gets up, and then he sets down sudden on a horse block and wipes his face on his sleeve, which they was considerable blood come onto the sleeve.

From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

By the horse block lay the mass of something indeterminate which I presently saw to be sacks full of something knobby.

From The Killer by Stewart Edward White

"We must hurry, my dear, or we may be too late," Josiah Crabtree was saying; and now the boys noted that he was conducting the lady toward a carriage standing by the horse block.

From The Rover Boys at School by Edward Stratemeyer

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