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Meanings of horse-head in English

Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies.

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      Examples for "horsehead"
      Examples for "horsehead"
      1
      Now, the formal group stood before tall wooden doors engraved with the spiny horsehead crests of House Moritani.
      Paul of dune
      2
      His showed a spiked crown above crossed longaxes; hers quartered those same arms with Rodrik Ryswell's golden horsehead.
      A Dance with Dragons
      3
      His shield bore a unicorn sigil, and a spiral horn two feet long jutted up from the brow of his horsehead helm.
      A Game of Thrones
      4
      A horsehead emblem adorned the lapel of his white-and-blue jacket, a stylized depiction that showed sharp spines projecting from the horse's majestic head.
      Paul of dune
      5
      The Horsehead Nebula was in the northern sky, out over the sea.
      Ancient shores
      1
      Examples: puffers and moonfish.
      Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
      Usage of horse-head in English
      1
      One of the men pulled his horse-head hood back and walked toward him.
      The Plains of Passage
      2
      Thirty five 1-kg packages of cocaine were hidden by "the Artist" inside the horse-head statue.
      Radio NZ
      3
      The horse-head door knocker was plated gold.
      Cold springs
      4
      There's a ce­ramic horse-head on the lamp here and it has such a sweet look on its face.
      I’m With the Band
      5
      If after resorting the Vedas to Brahmana, Narayana to his own nature, where would his form be that had the horse-head?
      The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
      6
      Plus, their slices of pepperoni are bigger than this belt buckle. He pointed to a brass horse-head-inside-of-circle between his stomach and crotch.
      Mysterious Skin
      7
      He went to talk to the other man in the horse-head cape, spoke for a moment, then returned and indicated they were going.
      The Plains of Passage
      8
      Netflix's animated series Bojack Horseman is the most moving story about a washed-up horse-headed actor you'll ever see.
      The Irish Times
      Frequent collocations
      Horse-head through the time