white horse

See also: Whitehorse and White Horse

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Noun

white horse (countable and uncountable, plural white horses)

1. (countable) Any of several horse-shaped chalk figures in England, such as the Uffington White Horse.
2. (countable) A wave that is blown by the wind such that its crest is broken up and appears white and foamy; a whitecap.
3. (slang) A recreational drug in the form of white powder: heroin or cocaine.
4. A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil.
5. (Singapore, military) A soldier who is the child of a minister, high-ranking civil servant or officer, or comes from a highly influential family; these soldiers are sometimes subject to preferential treatment in camp.
6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white,‎ horse.

Derived terms

• Vale of White Horse

Translations

literal white horse

• Albanian: gjok (sq)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白馬 / 白马 (zh) (báimǎ), (obsolete) 翰 (zh) (hàn)

• Czech: šiml (cs), (achaic) bron (cs), (achaic) brůna (cs)
• Finnish: valakki
• German: Schimmel (de)
• Latvian: baltiņš
• Panamint: tosa-kapayu
• Persian: چرمه (fa) (čarme), الوس (fa) (alus), خنگ (fa) (xeng), نیله (fa) (nile)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бије́лац m, бе́лац m, ђо̏гат m, ђо́го m

  Roman: bijélac (sh) m, bélac (sh) m, đȍgat (sh) m, đógo (sh) m