Definitions for river-horse

river-horse river horse

River-Horse is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in river-horse (-eehiorrrsv).

Definitions for river-horse

noun

  1. a hippopotamus.

Origin of river-horse

First recorded in 1595-1605

Examples for river-horse

He threw coils of the rope about the short legs of the "river horse" and down went the hippopotamus with a thud.

The river horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon.

The explosive balls had both flown true to the mark, invariably a fatal one in the case of the river horse.

It was believed that the initiated could conjure up the river horse by shaking a magic bridle over the pool wherein it dwelt.

From the ivory of a river horse's tooth I had endeavoured to carve me a representative of Nais as last I had seen her.

Word Value for river-horse
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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