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neighing en · NOUN
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(countable, uncountable) The sound made by a horse: an act or instance of the verb neigh.
During the night a neighing of horses was heard, and when day broke, they found these three animals had joined those belonging to our party.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 106:And when the earth beneath his tameless tread,
Shook with the sullen thunder, he would spread
His nostrils to the blast, and joyously
Mock the fierce peal with neighings; […]
1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 278:Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.
1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time:
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neighing en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of neigh