horse-trader

See also: horsetrader and horse trader

English

Noun

horse-trader (plural horse-traders)

1. Alternative spelling of horsetrader
   • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 25:

     Kim, fending the lama between excited men and excited beasts, sidled along the cloisters to the far end, nearest the railway station, where Mahbub Ali, the horse-trader, lived when he came in from that mysterious land beyond the Passes of the North.