horsecloth

[ hawrs-klawth, -kloth ]

noun

, plural horse·cloths [hawrs, -klaw, th, z, -klo, th, z, -klawths, -kloths].

1. a cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of horsecloth¹

First recorded in 1520–30; horse + cloth

Example Sentences

Then he bestowed on his grandfather one half of the sundered horsecloth.

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When the cold nipped too close into her she would get up and wrap herself in the horsecloth and read with savage application, rushing to the core of the thought.

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Then the man forming the hinder part of the carnival steed sprang quickly forth from beneath the horsecloth.

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The stranger waited, though rather impatiently, till Bennet reappeared, leading a rough Dunsmoor pony, with a horsecloth tied round it, on which he mounted without saddle.

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I was tempted at last to take the horsecloth off my shoulders, and to wrap my feet up in it, but all was of no use.

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