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.

---

Etymology

Origin of horse block

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

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.

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

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 White, Stewart Edward

A young man whom she recognized as one of her Uncle Zeke's tenants was hitching to the horse block a well-set-up young mare drawing a species of broad-seated breaking sulky.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham

He set it on the horse block beside the gate, took out his pocketbook and paid over the four dollars.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham