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An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
A search and rescue horse is a horse trained and used to perform mounted search and rescue. In many cases, the horse is simply a means of transportation for a SAR responder. In other cases, the horse is a full member of the SAR field team. Like a SAR dog, a SAR horse can be trained to search for lost persons, using its keen senses of hearing ...
The tarsal joint of the equine hind leg, located midway between the horse's body and the ground. [8]: 244 Anatomically corresponds to a human's ankle and heel, but in horses is located much farther from the ground. Prehistoric cave painting of a horse from the Lascaux caves horse 1. Wild Horse: Equus ferus. a.
Cricket: a metaphor used to describe a difficult circumstance. It originated as a term to describe difficult playing conditions caused by a damp and soft pitch which was rapidly drying. Stumped Cricket: To be confused or undecided. In cricket, to be out due to the wicket-keeper disrupting the stumps with the batsman being out of their crease.
Circumstances that lead to the necessity for rescue can develop due to bad luck, when the events were not foreseeable, duty, where there is known risk, but the person is legally or ethically obliged to take the risk, through voluntary assumption of reasonable risk in the pursuit of profit, knowledge, entertainment or other perceived reward, ignorance of risk foreseeable by a well informed ...
A horsepower-hour (symbol: hp⋅h) is an outdated unit of energy, not used in the International System of Units.The unit represents an amount of work a horse is supposed capable of delivering during an hour (1 horsepower integrated over a time interval of an hour).
This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).
[1] [2] The techniques vary in their precise tenets but generally share principles of "a kinder and gentler cowboy" [3] to develop a rapport with horses, [4] using methods said to be derived from observation of the natural behavior of free-roaming horses [5] and rejecting abusive training methods. [1]