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Definition of Horse trade
1. Noun. The swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining).
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Literary usage of Horse trade
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1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... surveying the judge's animal, set down his sawhorse and exclaimed : " Well,
judge, this is the first time I ever got the worst of it in a horse trade. ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"A circumstance, that would render the extension of these restraints to the horse-
trade more smooth and easy, is, that in the one track as well as in the ..."