Definitions for horse-trade

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Spelling: [hawrs-treyd]

IPA: /ˈhɔrsˌtreɪd/

Horse-Trade is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 730 anagrams from letters in horse-trade (-adeehorrst).

Definitions for horse-trade

noun

1. a shrewdly conducted exchange, as of favors or objects, usually resulting from or accompanied by very close bargaining.
2. an exchanging or trading of horses.

verb (used without object)

1. to bargain or trade shrewdly.

Origin of horse-trade

An Americanism dating back to 1820-30

Examples for horse-trade

I can get a margin off most any man in the West on a horse-trade, but I'd look shy about doing a trade with him.

He would express a willingness to horse-trade with every member.

They both remembered that Hennard was close by at the time of the quarrel over the horse-trade.

Truth, it seemed, might be absent or present in a horse-trade, but mystery was essential.

For there, it is said, no boy is permitted to leave home on a horse enterprise until he has cheated his father in a horse-trade.

I took time to explain how I had made a raise, and about the horse-trade.

It was a suit between two farmers who had had a disagreement over a horse-trade.