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Horse (disambiguation)

The word horse has many meanings:

• A horse is a large ungulate mammal of the equine family.
• Horse meat is consumed by animals and humans.
• A horse can refer to equipment build roughly with a horse's silhouet such as:
  • punishment horse,
  • vaulting horse in gymnastics,
  • sawhorse and shave horse used for woodworking.
• "Horse" is the name of a game played with a basketball.
• "Horse" is a slang term for the recreational drug heroin.
• A metonym 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.
• Horses is an album by Patti Smith.
• "Iron horse" is an archaic term for a locomotive.