horse

n 1: solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since

prehistoric times [syn: {Equus caballus}]

2: a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

3: troops trained to fight on horseback: "500 horse led the

attack" [syn: {cavalry}, {horse cavalry}]

4: a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn: {sawhorse},

{sawbuck}, {buck}]

5: a chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two

squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

[syn: {knight}]

6: a morphine derivative [syn: {heroin}, {diacetyl morphine}, {H},

{junk}, {scag}, {shit}, {smack}]

v : provide with a horse or horses

hose

1. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance.

"That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system." See

{hosed}.

2. A narrow channel through which data flows under pressure.

Generally denotes data paths that represent performance

bottlenecks.

3. Cabling, especially {thick Ethernet cable}. This is

sometimes called "bit hose" or "hosery" (a play on "hosiery")

or "etherhose". See also {washing machine}.

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