Definition of "black horse" []

• A fish of the Mississippi valley (Cycleptus elongatus), of the sucker family; the Missouri sucker. (adjective)
• Etc. See under Black, etc. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "With Pausanius behind her, she walked to the farthest stall, where a huge black horse was rearing and bucking, his hooves thundering against the walls, causing them to creak and shudder."
• "I had just ridden past the last vedettes and hoped that I was a free man again, when there was a soft thudding in the snow behind me, and a heavy man upon a great black horse came swiftly after me."
• "Hefting the child into one arm, she backed up against the stall where the black horse was fidgeting and clattering."