river horse
a hippopotamus.
Origin of river horse
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How to use river horse in a sentence
The river horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon.
Oscar Wilde | Arthur RansomeThe sphinx, river-horse, and crocodile, denote the climate and manufacture of Egypt and the spoils of that ancient province.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward GibbonEven the huge river-horse of Africa would be swept off his feet and tossed to the surface like one of its froth-flakes.
The Lone Ranche | Captain Mayne ReidThe explosive balls had both flown true to the mark, invariably a fatal one in the case of the river horse.
By Sheer Pluck | G. A. HentyLiverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder.
Shirley | Charlotte Bront
British Dictionary definitions for river horse
an informal name for the hippopotamus
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