Stick Horse (Noun)
Meaning
A child's plaything consisting on an imitation horse's head on one end of a stick.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The little girl galloped around the backyard on her favorite toy, a colorful stick-horse with a flowing mane.
- As a toddler, Timmy's best friend was a worn stick-horse named Mr. Nibbles.
- Emma begged her grandfather to make her a stick-horse from the wooden dowel and felt she had found.
- With a loud "Yeehaw!" the children rode their stick-horses around the imaginary corral.
- A stick-horse was the only toy the pioneer child had to play with on the long wagon ride West.