Cock"horse` (?), n.
1.
A child's rocking-horse.
Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross.
Mother Goose.
2.
A high or tall horse.
[R.]
© Webster 1913.
Cock"horse`, a.
1.
Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
2.
Lofty in feeling; exultant; pround; upstart.
Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry.
Marlowe.
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