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Horse trade   /hɔrs treɪd/   Listen
Horse trade

noun
1.
The swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining).  Synonym: horse trading.






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"Horse trade" Quotes from Famous Books



... comprehension. He saw no earthly reason why Clemency should have avoided him. He followed Gordon with rather a downcast face into the office, and begun assisting him with his medicines. Gordon himself was too full of interest in the horse trade to remark anything. At times he chuckled to himself. Now and then he would burst out anew in a great peal of laughter. "Hang it all! I don't like to be done any better than any other man, but that little red-haired scamp ...
— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

... Billy Goat that shot at Da oncet, just after Da beat him at a horse trade. Let on it was a mistake: 'twas, too, as he found out, coz Da bought up some old notes of his, got 'em cheap, and squeezed him hard to meet them. He's had hard ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton



Words linked to "Horse trade" :   barter, swop, trade, swap



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