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n. - A pool of water for watering draft animals.

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Usage examples (31)
  • The boy began to remonstrate, upon which the doctor began to talk of the cage and the horsepond.
  • The least I will do, shall be, to send her home well soused in and dragged through our deepest horsepond.
  • Once, after having suffered the usual discipline of the horsepond, Dykes was carried before a Justice of Peace, and committed to Tothill Fields
  • But if my deerest younge lady should come to harm, and plese your Honner, the horsepond at the Blew Bore — but Lord preserve us all from all bad mischeff, and all bad...
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