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PONY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A range horse of the western United States
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pony" is a kind of...):
Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pony"):
mustang (small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish)
cayuse; Indian pony (a small native range horse)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("pony" is a kind of...):
Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pony"):
Shetland pony (breed of very small pony with long shaggy mane and tail)
Welsh pony (breed of small ponies originally from Wales)
Exmoor (stocky breed of pony with a fawn-colored nose)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An informal term for a racehorse
Example:
he liked to bet on the ponies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("pony" is a kind of...):
bangtail; race horse; racehorse (a horse bred for racing)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
Synonyms:
jigger; pony; shot glass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pony" is a kind of...):
drinking glass; glass (a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pony" is a kind of...):
interlingual rendition; rendering; translation; version (a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language)
Context examples:
When we got back, it was after moonrise: a pony, which we knew to be the surgeon's, was standing at the garden door.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"I have a pony at home, and ride nearly every day in the park with Fred and Kate. It's very nice, for my friends go too, and the Row is full of ladies and gentlemen."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She had not supposed before that anything could ever suit her like the old grey pony; but her delight in Edmund's mare was far beyond any former pleasure of the sort; and the addition it was ever receiving in the consideration of that kindness from which her pleasure sprung, was beyond all her words to express.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
To make it complete, who should drive past just as we cleared the village but Miss Hinton, the play-actress, the pony and phaeton the same as when first I saw her, but she herself another woman; and I thought to myself that if Boy Jim had done nothing but that one thing, he need not think that his youth had been wasted in the country.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Janet, hire the grey pony and chaise tomorrow morning at ten o'clock, and pack up Master Trotwood's clothes tonight.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She would canter up to the door on her pony, followed by a mounted livery servant.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A low phaeton, with a nice little pair of ponies, would be the very thing.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She couldn't understand it and did not venture to ask questions, so she shook her head and touched up her ponies, as the procession wound away across the arches of the Paglioni bridge and vanished in the church.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Yes, dear old grey pony!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
