tennessee walking horse

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Definition of tennessee walking horse in English English dictionary

Any of a breed of lightly built saddle horse developed in Tennessee from Morgan and standard bred stock and having an easy gait. Also called Tennessee walker. or Plantation Walking Horse Breed of light horse with a distinctive, easy-to-sit gait, the running walk. It was developed for touring U.S. Southern plantations. It averages 15.2 hands (61 in. [154 cm]) high and weighs about 1,000 lb (450 kg). Coat colour varies. Its ancestors included any horse capable of a running walk, a natural gait that cannot be acquired, but the most influential stallion was a Standardbred. The running walk, faster than a flat-footed walk, is a low, gliding, reaching action; the front foot strikes the ground an instant before the diagonal hind foot, which then oversteps the front footprint by several inches

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Hyphenation

Ten·nes·see walk·ing horse

Turkish pronunciation

tenısi wôkîng hôrs

Pronunciation

/ˌtenəˈsē ˈwôkəɴɢ ˈhôrs/ /ˌtɛnəˈsiː ˈwɔːkɪŋ ˈhɔːrs/