poet. = WAR-HORSE.

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1776.  Mickle, trans. Camoens’ Lusiad, X. 453. Here the proud war-steed glories in his force.

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1810.  Scott, Lady of Lake, I. xxxi. No rude sound shall reach thine ear, Armour’s clang, or war-steed champing. Ibid. (1829), Anne of G., xxxii. Don your harness …—mount your war steed—cry, René for Provence!

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1870.  Bryant, Iliad, II. 2. Mortal men, Tamers of war-steeds.

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  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.

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