prad

American  

[prad] / præd /

noun

Australian.

1. Informal. horse.

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Etymology

Origin of prad

1790–1800; metathetic variant of Dutch paard horse (cognate with German Pferd ) ≪ Late Latin paraverēdus post horse for lesser highways. See palfrey

Example Sentences

His prad is becalmed; his horse knocked up.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

With his lordship, like another great commander, "Once to be in doubt, was once to be resolved:" it would never do to go to the wars on a ricketty prad.

From Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers by Various

How can a cove stand talking in the street with his master's prad a wanting to be took to be rubbed down, and his master up to every individgle thing that happens!'

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles

He clapped his bleeders to his prad;   be put spurs to his horse.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

And yet again— “Coruncho Lopez, gallant lad,    A smuggling he would ride; So stole his father’s ambling prad, And therefore to the galleys sad    Coruncho now I guide.”

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey