Definition of "horse cavalry" []

• Troops trained to fight on horseback (noun)
• An army unit mounted on horseback (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Originally, the Arab’s sole cavalry weapon, aside from knives, was the long, heavy camel saber, so our European horse cavalry taught them the use of the lance, and about mounted archery, something that they hadn’t practiced here before, for some reason that I couldn’t fathom."