horsebound

English

Etymology

From horse +‎ bound.

Adjective

horsebound (not comparable)

1. Dependent on horses.
   • 1971, Canadian Jersey Breeder, volume 26, page 13:

     It is one thing to point with pride to that fact modern farmer feeds 45 or 50 people while his horsebound forefathers fed only nine or so.

   • 2012, Doug Saunders, The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?‎^[1]:

     The paintings he chose to adorn his parliamentary office suite were not what you'd expect from the leader of the radically anti-Muslim Party For Freedom (PVV): not the heroic horsebound realism of an archconservative revanchist, nor the stark abstractions of a freemarket libertarian.

   • 2016, Frederick E. Hoxie, The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History‎^[2]:

     Being more mobile changed everything for those who adopted a horse-bound life.

Anagrams

• shorebound