war-steed poet.
= war-horse.
| 1776 Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad x. 453 Here the proud war-steed glories in his force. 1810 Scott Lady of L. i. xxxi, No rude sound shall reach thine ear, Armour's clang, or war-steed champing. 1829 ― Anne of G. xxxii, Don your harness..—mount your war-steed—cry, René for Provence! 1870 Bryant Iliad ii. 2 Mortal men, Tamers of war-steeds. |
| fig. 1848 Lytton K. Arthur viii. xxx, Beorn, the bold son of Sweyn, the Göthland king, Whose ocean war-steeds on the Baltic deeps Range their blue pasture. |