| shire horse | |
| —n | |
| Often shortened to: shire a large heavy breed of carthorse with long hair on the fetlocks | |
| [C19: so called because the breed was originally reared in the Shires. See | |
| shire horse | |
noun | |
| British breed of large heavy draft horse [syn: shire] |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |