What does prad mean?
Prad means (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, dated) A horse..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, dated) A horse..
1893, Ernest Favenc, "Bunthorp's Decease" in Tales of the Austral Tropics, London: Osgood, MacIlvaine & Co., 1894, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600691h.html "Not a bad sort of a prad that brown one," he remarked; "looks a little gone in the near fore-leg."
Horse Stealers, they go together always the Day before, to look over the Grounds for a good Prad or Prads […]
We had fixed our eye on a horse-dealer, and had some conversation with him about the purchase of a prad; but we could not agree, and parted, on account of a deeker, who was eyeing us closely, and I observed him speak to the jockey.
'Just send somebody out to relieve my mate, will you, young man?' said the officer; 'he's in the gig, a-minding the prad. […]'
So smooth of face, so fine of eye, so much a beautiful part of his beautiful chestnut prad.
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Prad means (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, dated) A horse..
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1893, Ernest Favenc, "Bunthorp's Decease" in Tales of the Austral Tropics, London: Osgood, MacIlvaine & Co., 1894, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600691h.html "Not a bad sort of a prad that brown one," he remarked; "looks a little gone in the near fore-leg."
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