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prad en · NOUN

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Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch paard (“horse”). Doublet of palfrey.

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, dated, informal) A horse.
   • 'Just send somebody out to relieve my mate, will you, young man?' said the officer; 'he's in the gig, a-minding the prad. […]' 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “chapter XXXI”, in Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
   • So smooth of face, so fine of eye, so much a beautiful part of his beautiful chestnut prad. 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 212:
   • We had fixed our eye on a horse-dealer, and had some conversation with him about the purchase of a prad; but we could not agree, and parted, on account of a deeker, who was eyeing us closely, and I observed him speak to the jockey. 1821, David Haggart, The Life of David Haggart, written by himself while under sentence of death, London: W. and C. Tait, page 22:
   • 1893, Ernest Favenc, "Bunthorp's Decease" in Tales of the Austral Tropics, London: Osgood, MacIlvaine & Co., 1894, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600691h.html "Not a bad sort of a prad that brown one," he remarked; "looks a little gone in the near fore-leg."
   • Horse Stealers, they go together always the Day before, to look over the Grounds for a good Prad or Prads […] 1754, John Poulter, The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter, Sherborne, page 39:

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