Horse breaker

See PRETTY HORSE BREAKER . Horse chaunter , a dealer who takes worthle horses to country fairs and disposes of them by artifice. He is generally an unprincipled fellow, and will put in a gla eye, fill a beast with shot, plug him with ginger, or in fact do anything so that he sells to advantage. See COPER . Horse marine , an awkward person. In ancient times the “jollies,” or Royal Marines, were the butts of the sailors, from their ignorance of seamanship. “Tell that to the MARINES , the blue jackets wont believe it!” was a common rejoinder to a “stiff yarn.” A HORSE marine (an impo ibility) was used to denote one more awkward even than an ordinary “jolly.” Nowadays the MARINES are deservedly appreciated as one of the finest regiments in the service. Horse nails. At the game of cribbage, when a player finds it his policy to keep his antagonist back, rather than push himself forward, and plays accordingly, he is sometimes said “to feed his opponent on HORSE NAILS .”