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horsebound en · ADJ

Etymology

From horse + bound.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Dependent on horses.
    • The paintings he chose to adorn his parliamentary office suite were not what you'd expect from the leader of the radically anti-Muslim Party For Freedom (PVV): not the heroic horsebound realism of an archconservative revanchist, nor the stark abstractions of a freemarket libertarian. 2012, Doug Saunders, The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?:
    • It is one thing to point with pride to that fact modern farmer feeds 45 or 50 people while his horsebound forefathers fed only nine or so. 1971, Canadian Jersey Breeder, volume 26, page 13:
    • Being more mobile changed everything for those who adopted a horse-bound life. 2016, Frederick E. Hoxie, The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History: