horse-block
English
Noun
horse-block (plural horse-blocks)
- A platform or steps used for getting on or off a horse, in modern times, sometimes a vehicle.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
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References
- Merriam-Webster
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