HORSEMANSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horsemanship mean? 

• HORSEMANSHIP (noun)
  The noun HORSEMANSHIP has 1 sense:

1. skill in handling and riding horses

  Familiarity information: HORSEMANSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSEMANSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Skill in handling and riding horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("horsemanship" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; acquirement; acquisition; attainment; skill (an ability that has been acquired by training)

Derivation:

horseman (a man skilled in equitation)

 Context examples 

“Yes,” added Maria, “and her spirits are as good, and she has the same energy of character. I cannot but think that good horsemanship has a great deal to do with the mind.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Yet with consummate horsemanship they both swung round in a long curvet, and then plucking out their swords they lashed at each other like two lusty smiths hammering upon an anvil.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She feared for William; by no means convinced by all that he could relate of his own horsemanship in various countries, of the scrambling parties in which he had been engaged, the rough horses and mules he had ridden, or his many narrow escapes from dreadful falls, that he was at all equal to the management of a high-fed hunter in an English fox-chase; nor till he returned safe and well, without accident or discredit, could she be reconciled to the risk, or feel any of that obligation to Mr. Crawford for lending the horse which he had fully intended it should produce.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)