cockhorse [
'kɑk'hɔrs]
cockhorse[ noun ]
anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult)
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Cockhorse \Cock"horse`\, a.
1. Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
2. Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.
Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry.
--Marlowe.
Cockhorse \Cock"horse`\, n.
1. A child's rocking-horse.
Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. --Mother
Goose.
2. A high or tall horse. [R.]