Crossword clues for whiskery
whiskery
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having whiskers; bewhiskered. 2 (context humorous English) old
WordNet
adj. having hair on the cheeks and chin [syn: bearded, barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered]
Wikipedia
Whiskery (foaled 1924 - died 1937 ) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the winner of the 1927 Kentucky Derby after defeating Osmand by a nose in the stretch. Whiskery won the Ardsley Handicap at age two and the Chesapeake Stakes at age three. He was third in the 1927 Preakness Stakes and was American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse that year.
Whiskery was sold in 1927 to the Stone-Hancock-Woodward partnership for $60,000 for use as a stud horse. However, he proved to be sterile and was put back into training as a gelding. Whiskery did not achieve his previous racing success and was finally shipped in 1931 to the Morven Stud in Charlottesville, Virginia for use as a saddle horse.
Whiskery's time of death was not officially reported to The Jockey Club, but it is assumed that he died around 1936 as the result of a catastrophic leg injury, either sustained by colliding with a tree while fulfilling his duty as the night watchman's horse or as a result of a track injury.
Usage examples of "whiskery".
Like the little hexies, both ends had the same whiskery tendrils sprouting from a bulbous, snoutless appendage that might be a head.
As for the rest of my infancy, it is a passing lantern-show of swaddling bands, sore gums, wooden rattles, tops, hoops, rods, whips, tears, tantrums, messed underclothes, pulled hair, grazed knees, teeth left under pillows, burning candlewax, stone flags, water-rats, whiskery old aunts, causeless laughter and unreined grief.
In the fridge he had also found blackening avocadoes, tomatoes spotted with grey, whiskery sweetcorn and mouldy cheese.
Hoddan astonishedly regarded his whiskery countenance, contorted with grief and dampened with tears.
Norman turned and a brown bat flew into his face, snapping at him with its whiskery mouth as its wings battered against his cheeks.
Today, his pale, whiskery body would be physically reincorporated with the magnetohydrodynamic Shell.