The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horse-leech
Horse-leech \Horse"-leech`\, n.
(Zo["o]l.) A large blood-sucking leech ( H[ae]mopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
Wiktionary
horse-leech
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A veterinarian for horses. 2 A type of sucking worm, ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemopis%20sanguisuga'', larger than the common leech.
Usage examples of "horse-leech".
Poll, Maggie and a horse-leech from the starboard watch have been administering enemas to the many, many cases of gross surfeit that have now replaced the frostbites, torsions and debility of the recent past, the very recent past.