NOUN | a horse's head | horses' heads | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- A nithing pole consisted of a long, wooden pole with a recently cut horse head at the end, and at times with the skin of the horse laid over the pole.
- It flows east and south-east taking the flows from several small streams originating on Yockenthwaite Moor on the north bank and Horse Head Moor on the south bank.
- From Halton Gill there is a bridleway over the Horse Head Pass to the north east to Yockenthwaite in Langstrothdale.
- One of the famous avatars of Vishnu, Hayagriva, is depicted with a horse head. Hayagriva is worshipped as the God for Knowledge.
- As Carlos Jr related it to a later interviewer, he was standing backstage at an early performance when someone shoved a horse head mask over him and pushed him out onto the ice.
- The current logo is a profile of a horse's head, with an orange mane and navy blue outlines.
- In a more serious feud, escalation of hostilities can be signaled by the appearance of a goat head or horse head.
- The horse head represents service as Mounted Engineers (1917–1941) and Armored Engineers (1941–1945).
- In 1845 a hoard of 140 metal artefacts known as the "Stanwick Hoard", which included four sets of horse harness for chariots and a bronze horse head 'bucket attachment', was found half a mile away at Melsonby.
- Often the peg-head has a carving of a horse head (very common on instruments around Mongolia).
- The new armoured horse head was nicknamed the "biker patch".
- Escutcheon: Sable (or Azure) a horse head Argent issuant from a crescent of the same.
- The city has a monument to the horse-head fiddle (morin khuur), the national emblematic instrument of Mongols.
- The bridle follows the curve of the horse head as it lowers and raises to create a vertical or nearly-vertical stroke.
- The horse-head fiddle, or "morin khuur", is a distinctively Mongolian instrument and is seen as a symbol of the country.
- A similar form is found in traditional Chinese architecture called " [...] " (pinyin: "mǎtóu qiáng"), which literally means "horse-head wall".
- It can also be used instead of the genitive to express a possessor, so that the combination gets a generalised compound-like meaning (лаша пӳҫӗ 'a horse head' vs лашан пӳҫӗ 'the horse's head'); with both nominative and genitive, however, the possessed noun has a possessive suffix (see below).
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