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Cockhorse

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
  2. 2
    Lofty in feeling; exultant, proud, upstart. figuratively

    "[Y]et I needs muſt ſee / Our painted fooles and cockehorſe peſſantry, / Still ſtill vſurpe, with long liues, loues and luſt, / The feats of vertue; […]"

Noun
  1. 1
    A child's rocking horse. archaic

    "Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross."

  2. 2
    anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) wordnet

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