Synonyms:
charger, courser
Meaning: formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
Usage examples
Outside stood his faithful charger, pawing the ground.
The King gave him a beautiful charger, with golden stirrups, and a sword.
Baron Conrad and his men-at-arms sat foot in stirrup, the milk-white horse that had been brought for Otto stood waiting for him beside his father's great charger.
The mouth must be secured by a plug, which may be hollowed to make a charger. Pieces of cane of large diameter, and old gunpowder canisters, sewn up in hide, make useful powder-flasks.
'Yes,' he answered, 'they are pursuing us, and are quite close.' 'Then no time must be lost,' said Hyacinthia, and she immediately turned herself into a river, Prince Milan into an iron bridge, and the charger into a blackbird.