The Horse Dictionary: English‐language Terms Used in Equine Care, Feeding, Training, Treatment, Racing and Show

The horse has been exploited by the human race for at least 10,000 years, first as food, then as draught animals, transportation and an essential source of power in agriculture, not forgetting, the most usual use today, for sport and leisure activities and entertainment. It is therefore hardly surprising that a huge vocabulary of exclusively equine terms now exists in the English language, but is surprising that until this title was first produced there had been no comprehensive collection and definition of these words and phrases. This is a 2001 reprint of the 1995 work, covering over 6,000 terms, which...