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Wooden Horse (To ride the)

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To sail aboard a ship, brig, or boat, etc.

“He felt a little out of the way for riding the wooden horse.”—Sir Walter Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xv.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Wonder
Wonder-worker
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Wood’s Halfpence
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Woodbine
Woodcock (A)
Wooden Horse (The)
Wooden Horse (To ride the)
Wooden Horse of Troy
Wooden Mare (The)
Wooden Spoon
Wooden Sword
Wooden Wall
Wooden Wedge
Woodfall
Woodwardian Professor
Wool
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