Horse (disambiguation)
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The word horse has a number of uses:
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- Horse meat is consumed in some cultures and taboo in others.
- Equipment build roughly with a horse's silhouette such as:
- punishment horse,
- Wooden Horse, used in bondage,
- vaulting horse in gymnastics,
- sawhorse and shave horse used for woodworking.
- "Horse" is the name of a game played with a basketball.
- In the Vodou faith, a "horse" is a ritualist who is possessed by a Loa, a Vodou spirit.
- A slang term for the hard drug heroin.
- A term for a cavalry unit, sometimes even in the official name (as of a mounted regiment).
- A horse in the game of chess is an informal name for the knight; its equivalent is the only common name in various languages.
- Horse is a zodiac sign in Chinese Astrology.
- Horses is an album by Patti Smith.
- the acronym H.O.R.S.E. is a form of poker.
- "Iron horse" is an archaic term for a locomotive.
- HORSE the Band is an experimental hardcore band.
- Horsepower is a measure of power.
- Holistic Operational Readiness Security Evaluation (HORSE) project Wiki. This is the project site for the Holistic Operational Readiness Security Evaluation (HORSE) project Wiki.
[edit] People
- Horse, vocalist/musician
- Crazy Horse, Lakota leader
- George Horse-Capture, Native American writer and anthropologist
- Many Horses, an Oglala Sioux spiritual leader
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