What is "black horse"

Sucker \Suck"er\ (s[u^]k"[~e]r), n.

1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

2. A suckling; a sucking animal.
   --Beau. & Fl.

3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
   --Boyle.

4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.

5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.

6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

7. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomid[ae]; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker ( Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker ( C. teres), the hog sucker ( C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker ( Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.

   2. The remora.

   3. The lumpfish.

   4. The hagfish, or myxine.

   5. A California food fish ( Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.

8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.

   They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch.
   --Fuller.

9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]

10. A greenhorn; someone easily cheated, gulled, or deceived.

11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.]

12. A person strongly attracted to something; -- usually used with for; as, he's a sucker for tall blondes.

    11. Any thing or person; -- usually implying annoyance or dislike; as, I went to change the blade and cut my finger on the sucker. [Slang]

    Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc.

    Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking.

    Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump.

    Sucker tube (Zo["o]l.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.

Black Horse and Blackhorse may refer to:

• Black (horse) an equine coat color
• Blackhorse, Dublin, a neighbourhood in Dublin, Ireland
• Black Horse, New Jersey, a community in the United States
• Black Horse, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
• Blackhorse, West Virginia, a community in the United States
• Black Horse (spaceplane), a proposed winged, single stage to orbit launch vehicle
• Black Horse Bandit, a 1919 short Western film
• Black Horse Cavalry, a 19th-century group of corruptionists in the New York state legislature
• Black Horse Pike, an historic route in New Jersey
• Black Horse Regiment, nom de guerre of the U.S. Army 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
• " Black Horse and the Cherry Tree", a song by K.T. Tunstall
• Black Horse Pike Regional School District
• Black Horse (company), a subsidiary, trading name and the logo of Lloyds Banking Group
• Black Horse (Comanche) a Native American Comanche leader.
• one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Black Horse Westerns, an imprint of British publisher Robert Hale Ltd.
• Blackhorse Road station on the London Underground and Overground
• Black Horse, Preston, a pub in Lancashire, England
• Black Horse (legend), a traditional story from French Canada.

The Black Horse was a study for a proposed winged, single stage to orbit launch vehicle using aerial refueling and lower performance, non- cryogenic propellants.

Black Horse Limited is the UK’s leading provider of motor finance. It was formed in 2001 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, but its origins can be traced back to 1922. The company helps over 200,000 customers every year to finance new and used cars, caravans, motorhomes or motorbikes through their network of over 5,000 dealers.

Black Horse or Tu-ukumah (unknown–ca. 1900), was a Comanche war chief.

After Bull Bear died in 1874, Black Horse was promoted to second chief in the Quahadi band of Comanche. That is Quanah Parker's band.

He surrendered to the United States Army at Fort Sill, Indian Territory at the end of the Red River War in early 1875. He was then sent along with 10 other Comanche to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. His wife and daughter Akhah were allowed to join him, lthough they were not considered prisoners. He was released from captivity and returned to the Comanche Reservation in Indian Territory in 1878.

The black horse builder is a traditional oral story of Quebec and the other regions of French Canada. It has many variants, but most often it is about a magnificent black horse, or more rarely a white horse, which helps to build a chapel, church, or cathedral. Impressed by the courage of the animal, a worker removes its bridle. The construction of the building is interrupted when it is almost complete and the horse flees, suggesting that it is the devil. A stone is still missing at the top of the religious building.

This story is to be found on both sides of the Saint Lawrence River, and especially at Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, L'Islet, Quebec and in the other regions of Quebec. It also exists in a French quarter of Saint Boniface in Manitoba. The association of the devil and a black horse is frequently found in Québécois imagery. This may be connected with the morals of the Catholic Church and the fear of a meeting with the devil.

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