What is "warhorse"

Usage examples of "warhorse".

The dun was positively a butterball, but Siuan would probably treat a pony like a warhorse.

Mary made a polite but noncommittal response, and turned to watch the arrival, not of the expected Wharton wagon, but of a particularly well-built haycart from Canons Grange, lined with bales of straw and drawn by a pair of great horses which arched their necks, raised and lowered their great feathered feet and flourished their ribboned tails with all the pride of their warhorse ancestry.

They were chargers, long put out to pasture, their muzzles grayed, these old warhorses still knew their training.

Though it loomed larger than a warhorse, and could send him flying with a swipe of its foreclaws, it never did, and he felt easy around it now, although Domina still held herself aloof.

We crossed the sons from the hunters to the daughters from the plowhorses, and that gives us our basic warhorse.

From his fruitless search for horses, Tonos already knew the stables to be empty of Tahmahs and his godless crew as well as of any save the two warhorses.

When all contestants, buckled and braced and mounted on their sturdy warhorses, had ridden twice around the lists, the marshall of the games took his place upon the field and read out the rules of the tournament to the participants now lining either end of the field.

The warhorses tossed their heads and snorted as the wind gusted smoke from the burning woods across the battlefield.

All kinds of horses, from beautiful sleek warhorses at the tournament to barnyard nags in the fields.

The small open space remaining was now filled with above threescore stamping, whickering warhorses, astride most of which were armored and fully armed fighting men.

Death has taught them all that he has learned, and, as they are both intelligent and good mindspeakers, they should make good warhorses even without the refinements of proper training.

He still meant to provide for his loved son, but he had suddenly realized as the archduke spoke that he could beggar his duchy if he had to buy trained warhorses and weapons and armor for fifty-odd men.

In the roadway before them, three noblemen sat their warhorses, blocking the narrow track, which here wound between gradual, grassy slopes grown with brush and small trees.

Today, the sun shone brightly on a party of local men and boys assiduously cutting the peat whereon warhorses had trampled, whereon men had marched and charged and died, last year.

Now they proved their worth, surrounding the bullies, catching the reins of their rearing warhorses and pulling their heads down, then hauling their masters off their backs.