Definitions for horse-collar

horse-collar horse-col·lar

Spelling: [hawrs-kol-er]
IPA: /ˈhɔrsˌkɒl ər/

Horse-Collar is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 673 anagrams from letters in horse-collar (-acehlloorrs).

Definitions for horse-collar

noun

  1. (especially in baseball) a score of zero.

verb (used with object)

  1. to prevent (an opposing baseball team or batter) from scoring or making a base hit.

Examples for horse-collar

Eighteen miles off a man had some extra hand-cut shingles which he was willing to trade for a horse-collar.

If you expect me to treat my lyre like a horse-collar, and grin through it, I'm afraid I am unable to gratify you.

After the horse-collar I started in the dry-goods trade; but I was burned out.

If it was bad enough to have grinned through a horse-collar it was very bad indeed to have grinned in vain.

This personage jingles a horse-collar hung with bells, which forms not an unsuitable accompaniment to the ceremony.

He's slipped out as aisily as meself out of a horse-collar, and the face a' him as bould and as big as the hill o' hope!

A starched, springy cloth is worn about the neck of the women, shaped like a horse-collar.

Would you grin at me, you dog, like a clown gaping through a horse-collar?

He looked very sad and serious, and, seating himself in a corner of the room, proceeded to repair the horse-collar.

In that, the eye rested, with undisguised delight, upon the grimaces of grinning candidates for the honours of the horse-collar.

Word Value for horse-collar
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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