Banks’s Horse (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Banks’s Horse

A horse famous for playing tricks, the property of one Banks. It is mentioned in Sir Walter Raleigh’s Hist. of the World, p. 178; also by Sir Kenelm Digby and Ben Jonson.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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