Waler

Quick meaning: Waler is a noun meaning (Australia, India) A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.

Meaning

(Australia, India) A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.

More Meanings

1. (structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress.

Example Sentences

By the 1850s, there was a thriving trade in selling the horses to the Indian Army as 'remounts'. Between 1834 and 1937, more than 300,000 Walers were sent to India.

There were Arabs of high degree, thoroughbred English horses, and very good-looking Walers among them, besides some tiny ponies, four of which, when harnessed together, drew a real Cinderella coach of solid silver.

Without reason, against prudence, and at a moment's notice, he fell in love with a frivolous, golden-haired girl who used to tear about Simla Mall on a high, rough waler, with a blue velvet jockey-cap crammed over her eyes.

2007, "Waler", entry in Bonnie L. Hendricks, International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds, page 434, Some maintain that the Waler is extinct, its blood living on only in the modern Australian Stock Horse and some of the feral brumbies that roam the outback.

Word Forms

• walers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include war-horse, packer, suwar, gorawallah, warhorse, sowar.

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