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5 horse related terms (carriages, anatomy, breeds, tack)
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charger
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synonyms: trencher ???
tags: [equestrian]
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Definition:1. a large platter or plate2. a cavalry horse
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'[...] I believe I should send for the head of your cook in a charger—She has committed felony, on the person of that John Dory*, which is mangled in a cruel manner, and even presented without sauce—O tempora! O mores!'
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
*an edible fish species
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Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. And the king was sorry: nevertheless, for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her. And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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“I know that the Socialist Party are crying aloud for his head on a charger, as well as for the immediate release of the prisoner from the Devil’s Isle.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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The late General Pater, of the East India service, was a remarkably fat man. While stationed at Madras, he purchased a charger, which, after a short trial, all at once betook himself to a trick of lying down whenever he prepared to get upon his back.
Rollo Springfield. The Horse and His Rider (1897)
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A few loiterers had stopped by the gate to see the regiment file out. Erect on his charger, his face inclined to plumpness, his cheeks of an Imperial fulness, his eye lucid, the Prince must have been the victim of some hallucination,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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