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snowhorse en · NOUN

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Etymology

From snow + horse.

Meanings

1. A visual representation of a horse made from snow.
   • Little boy, house, Christmas trees, and snowman riding a snowhorse are depicted. 1991, Clara Johnson Scroggins, Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments: A Collector’s Guide, Hallmark Cards, →ISBN, page 102:
   • “Are they making snowmen?” asked Nora. / “Snowmen, snowwomen, snowmermaids, snowhorses—anything you can think of,” said Maddie. 2012, V. J. Chambers, Dancing Days (The Helicon Muses, Book One), Punk Rawk Books, →ISBN, page 73:
   • He’d helped them build a snowman this winter. With a snowhorse. 2002, Doranna Durgin, Changespell Legacy (The Changespell Saga, Book III), Blue Hound Visions, published 2013, →ISBN:
   • Other times, we’d make snowdragons, and snowhorses and a big pile of snowballs. 1992, Isabelle Knockwood, Gillian Thomas, Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Roseway Publishing, →ISBN, page 72:
   • One sees instead a small snowhorse / Made by children one dull afternoon, / Though now it gleams like Triton’s foal / New-born from the unblemished foam. 1958, Alan Brilliant, editor, Pan: A Quarterly of Poetry, New York: Igal Roodenko:
   • Sometime in 1977 my father takes a series of photographs of me sitting on a snowhorse we’d just made, which amuses my parents when they realize that I’m eating the snow. 2005, Joanne Merriam, The Glaze from Breaking, Stride Publications, →ISBN, page 56:
2. A horse bred or used for service in the winter.
   • There are “snowhorses,” not otherwise described in detail, that might be more than just ordinary equines bred for service in the winter. 1983, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 65, page 40, column 1:
   • Lyeth led the way through the narrow, up-sloping passage called the Neck and into an exercise yard where snowhorses and summer horses were being groomed or exercised or simply admired. 1983, Marta Randall, The Sword of Winter, Timescape Books, →ISBN, page 73:
   • Our boy Kent was with us. The mushy roads, the prancing snowhorses, the treacherous patches of ice on the highway, bothered him not a whit. 1951 January 27, Ray Nelson, “Beautiful Calm of the Children”, in The Herald-Journal, volume 42, number 43, Logan, Ut., page 2, column 1:
   • Profile of Kavanagh, who “has the constitution of a Tibetan snowhorse.” Comments on Kavanagh’s recovery from cancer:[…] 1996, Jonathan Allison, Patrick Kavanagh: A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 45:
   • Longview Farms, now operated by Loula Long Combs, better known throughout the United States as a breeder and exhibitor of thoroughbred snowhorses, is disposing of its 758 fine grade dairy cattle and replacing them with 700 beef cattle which need less attention. 1944 April 5, “Famous Dairy Herd Auctioned”, in The Parsons Sun, volume 72, number 219, Parsons, Kan., page 6, column 4:
   • They are equipped to completely rebuild and overhaul your present motor and return it to your^([sic]) purring like a kitten and performing like a snowhorse. 1957 January 14, “Hydramatic Transmissions Due Check Every 8-10,000 Miles, Says Expert”, in Shreveport Journal, volume 63, Shreveport, La., page 8, column 3:

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