English Dictionary

warhorse

名詞

歴史的 比喩的用法 くだけた表現

(historical, military) Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armoured knight.

日本語の意味

戦争や軍事的な作戦で使用される馬、特に鎧をまとった騎士が乗るために用いられる馬

The warhorse bore the armoured knight through the smoke of battle, its muscles coiling and releasing with each thunderous stride.

その戦馬は甲冑を着た騎士を背に、戦場の煙の中を踏みしめるように進んだ。

意味（1）

(historical, military) Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armoured knight.

Just within the inner edge of the circle stood a soldier, in the military attire of a strange nation; and without it was his warhorse, in the center of a collection of mounted domestics, seemingly in readiness to undertake some distant journey.

意味（2）

(figuratively, informal) An experienced person who has been through many battles, situations or contests; someone who has given long service.

Among other accidents of that year was a Democratic president. Judge Atwood was a warhorse of Democracy.

意味（3）

(theater, music) A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.

a Wagner warhorse

warhorses （ plural ）