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Definition of Pole horse
1. Noun. The horse having a starting position next to the inside rail in a harness race.
2. Noun. A draft horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pole Horse
Literary usage of Pole horse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1912)
"... was handling the reins; that Dahlquist then hitched Sullivan's right horse to
Curran's right pole horse and the plaintiff then tried to hitch Sullivan's ..."
2. History of Battery B, First New Jersey Artillery by Michael Hanifen (1905)
"A fragment of shell disemboweled the nigh pole horse; another took off his fore
... pole horse fell as soon as they stopped. Banks, Williams, Vandine and I ..."
3. Life with the Trotters by John Splan (1889)
"If one man has the pole and the other is out in the middle of the track and goes
around both turns of a mile track in that position the pole horse would ..."
4. Life with the Trotters by John Splan (1889)
"If one man has the pole and the other is out in the middle of the track and goes
around both turns of a mile track in that position the pole horse would ..."
5. Hard Tack and Coffee by John D. Billings (2001)
"When a bullet struck the bone of a horse's leg in the lower part, it made a hollow
snapping sound and took him off his feet. I saw one pole-horse shot thus, ..."
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