horselet

English

Etymology

From horse +‎ -let.

Noun

horselet (plural horselets)

1. A young or little horse; foal; pony.
   • 1746, Thomas Moffett, corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Health’s Improvement: or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering the Nature, Method and Manner of Preparing All Sorts of Foods Used in This Nation, London: […] T. Osborne, page 151:

     As for the Entrails of Hogs, and eſpecially the Horſelet, which Publius Syrus preferred before all Meats, I find them to be ſtopping, and of bad Nouriſhment;

   • 1888 January 29, The Reflector, volume I, number 5, London: James Stephen, page 91:

     The crowd of merry-makers who left the Palace tired and happy after pantomime and tea, contained a few pale young journalists, as tired and not less happy, who had neither witnessed the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, nor tasted the delights of the Camera Obscura, who had bought no sweets and put no pennies into automatic machines, who had neither been weighed, nor tested their strength, nor run races with mechanical horselets, but who had the proud satisfaction of knowing that they had done something towards enriching the Post Office and ruining their employer.

   • 1914, The Inland Printer, page 224:

     They say most any guy can lead a horse to water, yes, indeed; but then, you bet, it takes some gink to make his horselets take the drink.

   • 2003, Boatman’s Quarterly Review:

     An ancient landslide had trapped them in a side canyon, went the story, and they evolved into tiny horselets.

Synonyms

• horseling

Translations

foal — see foal

little horse — see horseling

pony — see pony