[
US
/ˈhwɪkɝ, ˈwɪkɝ/
]
[ UK /wˈɪkɐ/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪkɐ/ ]
NOUN
- the characteristic sounds made by a horse
VERB
- make a characteristic sound, of a horse
How To Use whicker In A Sentence
- The horse whickered and shook her head, sending Keegan flying through the air.
- My dreams for the future involve teaching in Florence and riding my bicycle with Simon the kitten riding in its whicker basket. Archive 2008-06-01
- Beyond the sound of bird song rose the whicker of a horse. Virginity
- Horses whickered and starting at some noise or piece of flapping cloth.
- She heard horses whickering softly in a nearby stable, owned by Master and Mistress Kaelseen, if she remembered correctly.
- She gasped and the horse whickered, stamping its hooves against the earth nervously.
- The three men always fell asleep to the sound of horses whickering from the nearby corral and the cattle lowing on the plains.
- He whooped with caustic laughter, startling his horse, which gave a nervous whicker and stamped its hooves. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- The mare whickered and gently bumped her head against her chest.
- Mike's face is exactly like the terrier in the old picture, and he sits up and gives his paw just like Bonneau, and I never saw him have any instruction; and as for voice, I wish you could hear Bonfire's "whicker" to me in the stable or elsewhere. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems