[f. STUD sb.2 + HORSE. Cf. ON. stóðhross.]

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  1.  A stallion kept for breeding.

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c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., III. 176. Ʒyf mon mæte þæt he feola stod horsa habbe.

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1598.  Extracts Munic. Acc. Newcastle (1848), 46. Paid for their stoude horses meate, 5s.

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1833.  Q. Rev., XLIX. 414. His lordship … at present has the stud-horse Lamplighter.

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1891.  C. Roberts, Adrift Amer., 185. He … challenged four stud-horses that belonged to us.

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  2.  U.S. Stud-horse poker: a variety of the game of poker.

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1891.  C. Roberts, Adrift Amer., 152. Every saloon had a gambling room, where poker, stud-horse poker, faro,… were usually hard at it.

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