STEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steed mean? 

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

1. (literary) a spirited horse for state of war

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(literary) a spirited horse for state of war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

warhorse (horse used in war)

Domain category:

literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)

 Context examples 

“The higher the steed the greater the fall. Hawk not at that which may be beyond thy flight.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I obeyed him, and walked down to the traveller, by this time struggling himself free of his steed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was in it an old steed, who seemed to be of quality; he alighted with his hind-feet forward, having by accident got a hurt in his left fore-foot.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Thereupon the wild man appeared immediately, and said: “What do you desire?” “I want a strong steed, for I am going to the wars.” “That you shall have, and still more than you ask for.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Ride by my side, friends, I entreat of you,” said the knight, reining in his steed that they might come abreast of him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The horse followed,—a tall steed, and on its back a rider.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be about ninety feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Just in front of the travellers a horseman was urging his steed up the slope, driving it on with whip and spur as one who rides for a set purpose.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he curbed it, I think, as a resolute rider would curb a rearing steed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The gray steed rubbed my hat all round with his right fore-hoof, and discomposed it so much that I was forced to adjust it better by taking it off and settling it again; whereat, both he and his companion (who was a brown bay) appeared to be much surprised: the latter felt the lappet of my coat, and finding it to hang loose about me, they both looked with new signs of wonder.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)