The Wooden Horse

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• The Wooden Horse — Infobox Film name = The Wooden Horse image size = caption = director = Jack Lee producer = writer = Eric Williams narrator = starring = Leo Genn Anthony Steel David Tomlinson music = cinematography = editing = distributor = released = 1950… …   Wikipedia

• Wooden Horse — There are two variations on the wooden horse. The first is a sharply angled device with the sharp point of the angle pointing upward, mounted on a saw horse like support. The victim, typically female though it was later used on males as well, was …   Wikipedia

• ride the wooden horse —    obsolete    to be flogged    From the horse, or stool, to which the victim was strapped …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• Wooden Horse — noun a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War • Syn: ↑Trojan Horse • Regions: ↑Greece, ↑Hellenic Republic, ↑Ellas • Instance Hypernyms: ↑figure …   Useful english dictionary

• WOODEN HORSE —    a gigantic horse of wood, within which Greek warriors were concealed, and which the Trojans were persuaded to admit into their city, to its ruin, on the pretext that it was an offering by the Greeks to Pallas, to atone for their abstraction of …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse — is a children s novel written by Ursula Moray Williams in 1938 while she was pregnant. [ [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ursula moray williams 423290.html Ursula Moray Williams] ] Plot introduction The book contains 19 chapters. The …   Wikipedia

• Wooden Canal Boat Society — The Wooden Canal Boat Society (WCBS) is a waterway society and a registered charity in England, UK, based at Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester. The Society started as the Wooden Canal Craft Trust in 1987, and by 1995 the Trust owned six… …   Wikipedia

• Horse harness — Horse in harness with horse collar A closeup of a …   Wikipedia

• The Golden Bird — is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, number 57, about the pursuit of a golden bird by a king s three sons. [Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales , [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/57goldenbird.html The Golden Bird ] ] A French… …   Wikipedia

• Horse (disambiguation) — The word horse has a number of uses:The animal* Horse, a large mammal domesticated for thousands of years. A member of the Equidae family. ** Also, the wild horse from which this animal evolved ** Sometimes used to refer to a stallion, as opposed …   Wikipedia