† horse-charge Obs.
[See charge n.]
1. A horse-load; the load of a pack-horse.
| c 1350 Usages Winchester in Eng. Gilds (1870) 358 An halpeny of custome as many tyme as he comeþ, and þe horsecharche a ferthynge. Ibid., An horse-charche, a peny. |
2. A cavalry charge.
| 1650 R. Elton Compl. Body Art Milit. i. iii. (1668) 2, I conceive it to be of little use to receive a desperate charge of the Horse..The best way of opposing the Horse-charge. |