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A child's rocking-horse.

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  1. n. A child's rocking-horse.
  2. n. A high or tall horse.
  3. a. Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
  4. a. Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.
  5. n. anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult)
  6. 1. A child's horse">rocking-horse. Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. Mother Goose. 2. A high or tall horse. [R.] 1. Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse. 2. Lofty in feeling; exultant; pround; upstart. Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry. Marlowe.
  7. n. anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult)