Definition of "horse-leech" [horse•-leech]

• A veterinarian for horses. (noun)
• A type of sucking worm, Haemopis sanguisuga, larger than the common leech. (noun)

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• "Instruct me, some good horse-leech, to speak treason;"
• "There is not horse-leech that sticks so fast as your latter-day Philistine."
• "And clings and pulls — a horse-leech, whose deep maw 190"