Horse vs. Pony — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Horse and Pony
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Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated one-toed hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus.
Pony
A pony is a small horse (Equus ferus caballus). Depending on the context, a pony may be a horse that is under an approximate or exact height at the withers or a small horse with a specific conformation and temperament.
Horse
A large plant-eating domesticated mammal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads.
Pony
A horse of any of several stocky breeds that are small in size when full grown, such as the Shetland pony.
Horse
A frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse.
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Pony
(Informal) A racehorse.
Horse
A unit of horsepower
A 63-horse engine
Pony
(Sports) A polo horse.
Horse
Heroin.
Pony
Something small for its kind, especially a small glass for beer or liqueur.
Horse
An obstruction in a vein.
Pony
A word-for-word translation of a foreign language text, especially one used as an aid in studying or test-taking. Also called crib, trot.
Horse
Provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses
Six men, horsed, masked, and armed
Pony
Chiefly British The sum of 25 pounds.
Horse
A large hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) having a short coat, a long mane, and a long tail, domesticated since ancient times and used for riding and for drawing or carrying loads.
Pony
To lead (a horse) with another horse.
Horse
An adult male horse; a stallion.
Pony
A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.
Horse
Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species Przewalski's horse or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.
Pony
A contraption built like a mount, strong enough to support one's weight
Horse
A frame or device, usually with four legs, used for supporting or holding.
Pony
(regional) A small serving of an alcoholic beverage, especially beer.
Horse
(Sports) A vaulting horse.
Pony
A serving of 140 millilitres of beer (formerly 5 fl oz); a quarter pint.
Horse
(Slang) Heroin.
Pony
Twenty-five pounds sterling.
Horse
Often horses Horsepower
A muscle car with 400 horses under the hood.
Pony
A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
Horse
Mounted soldiers; cavalry
A squadron of horse.
Pony
(slang) A ponytail hairstyle.
Horse
A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.
Pony
One horsepower.
How many ponies are under the hood?
Horse
A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.
Pony
(slang) A chorus girl of small stature.
Horse
To provide with a horse.
Pony
Ellipsis of Sony pony
Horse
To haul or hoist energetically
"Things had changed little since the days of the pyramids, with building materials being horsed into place by muscle power" (Henry Allen).
Pony
(Cockney rhyming slang) Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
Horse
To be in heat. Used of a mare.
Pony
(transitive) To lead (a horse) from another horse.
Horse
Of or relating to a horse
A horse blanket.
Pony
To use a crib or cheat-sheet in translating.
Horse
Mounted on horses
Horse guards.
Pony
(Cockney rhyming slang) Of little worth.
Horse
Drawn or operated by a horse.
Pony
A small horse.
Horse
Larger or cruder than others in the same category
Horse pills.
Pony
Twenty-five pounds sterling.
Horse
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
Pony
A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib; a trot.
Horse
Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
Pony
A small glass of beer.
Horse
(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
Pony
A range horse of the western United States
Horse
Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.
Pony
An informal term for a racehorse;
He liked to bet on the ponies
Horse
A component of certain games.
Pony
A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
Horse
(slang) A large and sturdy person.
Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
Pony
A small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
Horse
(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
Pony
Any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder
Horse
Equipment with legs.
Horse
In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.
Horse
A frame with legs, used to support something.
A clothes horse; a sawhorse
Horse
(nautical) Type of equipment.
Horse
A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
Horse
A breastband for a leadsman.
Horse
An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
Horse
A jackstay.
Horse
(mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
Horse
(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E).
Horse
(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
Horse
(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
Horse
A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
Horse
Horseplay; tomfoolery.
Horse
(slang) Heroin drug.
Horse
(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
Horse
(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
Horse
(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
Horse
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
Horse
To sit astride of; to bestride.
Horse
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
Horse
To take or carry on the back.
Horse
To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
Horse
(by extension) To flog.
Horse
(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
Horse
(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
Horse
To urge at work tyrannically.
Horse
To charge for work before it is finished.
Horse
A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (Equus caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.
Horse
The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.
Horse
Mounted soldiery; cavalry; - used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; - distinguished from foot.
The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot.
Horse
A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.
Horse
A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
Horse
Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.
Horse
A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse - said of a vein - is to divide into branches for a distance.
Horse
A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.
Horse
Heroin.
Horse
Horsepower.
Horse
To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.
Horse
To sit astride of; to bestride.
Horse
To mate with (a mare); - said of the male.
Horse
To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.
Horse
To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
Horse
To get on horseback.
Horse
Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
Horse
A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
Horse
Troops trained to fight on horseback;
500 horse led the attack
Horse
A framework for holding wood that is being sawed
Horse
A chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
Horse
Provide with a horse or horses
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