a horse apiece
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.23 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Maior promiſed Sir John Horner and myſelf a horſe apiece, when we went to London to the parliament, which we accepted of; and we talked about the ſynod and eccleſiaſtical diſmiſſions."
- ""Surely Marleon is rich enough to keep them a horse apiece.""
- "Spalding was furious. Feeling that his vision of launching a great cattle industry among the Nez Perces had been betrayed, he sentenced each Indian to a whipping and fined them a horse apiece, to be delivered to the mission."
- "That's how we got started. There was a Federal plan started at the same time we started. I went through it. It was a preliminary plan. Some of the ideas in that book I didn't like; but then, on the other hand, when they saw plan there were a few ideas they didn't like either. So, it's a horse apiece."
Usage
Synonyms
six of one
half a dozen of the other