The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pony \Po"ny\, n.; pl. Ponies. [Written also poney.] [Gael. ponaidh.]
A small horse.
Twenty-five pounds sterling. [Slang, Eng.]
A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib; a trot. [College Cant]
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A small glass of beer. [Slang]
Pony chaise, a light, low chaise, drawn by a pony or a pair of ponies.
Pony engine, a small locomotive for switching cars from one track to another. [U.S.]
Pony truck (Locomotive Engine), a truck which has only two wheels.
Pony truss (Bridge Building), a truss which has so little height that overhead bracing can not be used.
Usage examples of "poney".
At the same moment Delane, on a tall deep-chested poney, ambled across the field, stick on shoulder.
Why a New York banker of excessive weight and more than middle age, jogging on a poney across a Long Island polo field, should have reminded me of a martial figure on an armoured war-horse, I find it hard to explain.
It was over in the taking of a breath--then, while the crowd hummed and closed in, leaving Byrne to slink away as if he had become invisible, I saw my big Delane, growncalm and apathetic, turn to the poney and lay a soothing hand on its neck.
Delane thrashed that cur for ill-treating the poney, and not in the least for being too attentive to Mrs.
Bryan demurely held the rein, and hardly hazarded a look or covert joke, as with a pace that put the poney to a trot, he led the Prince through the narrow streets to the western gate.
Welsh poney and a Peruvian sheep, whose utmost capriole only tends to land him in the mud.
Und you say now dot your thief-servant did not say what drove der poney, and of course der nilghai he could not speak.
Und you say now dot your thief-servant did not say what drove der poney, and of course der nilghai he could not speak.