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steed

[steed]
noun
a horse, especially a high-spirited one.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English stēde, Old English stēda stallion; akin to stōd stud2; compare German Stute

steed·like, adjective
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
Example Sentences
  • Steed received a grant to draft a plan on how the city could maximize its revenue from the.
  • It's not the fastest steed in the stable but it utilizes an intuitive technology.
  • Brown as a radio cowboy who never sat astride a steed is filmfare with the flavor of dried corn.
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steed (stiːd)
 
n
archaic, literary or a horse, esp one that is spirited or swift
 
[Old English stēda stallion; related to German Stute female horse; see stud²]

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Word Origin & History

steed
O.E. steda "stallion, stud horse," from P.Gmc. *stodjon (cf. O.N. stoð), from the root of O.E. stod (see stud (2)). In M.E., "a great horse" (as distinguished from a palfrey), "a spirited war horse." Obsolete from 16c. except in poetic, rhetorical, or jocular language.
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