All 9 Uses
mane
in
Seabiscuit, by Hillenbrand
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- Even mainstream trainers would drop pennies in mares' water buckets to halt estrus, or exhaust themselves trying to get a mane that fell to the left—a bad omen—to fall to the right.†
Chpt 1.2 *mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- He was something to watch, pouring over his horse's back, belly flat to the withers, fingers threaded through the reins, face pressed into the mane, body curving along the ebb and flow of the animal's body.†
Chpt 1.4
- Fans brought heaps of flowers, and a woman stepped forward and braided ribbons into Seabiscuit's mane while he posed for the inevitable photographers.†
Chpt 2.13
- He was a splendid sight, his mane and tail braided in yellow ribbons, his coat glossy and his head high.†
Chpt 2.14
- Whitey had done his best to clean Seabiscuit up, braiding his mane, forelock, and tail, but the mane plaits didn't lie right and stuck out like quills.†
Chpt 2.14
- Whitey had done his best to clean Seabiscuit up, braiding his mane, forelock, and tail, but the mane plaits didn't lie right and stuck out like quills.†
Chpt 2.14
- Woolf was not moving at all, his chin in Seabiscuit's mane, his eyes on the horses ahead, his hands still.†
Chpt 2.16
- He flattened his back, dropped his chin into Seabiscuit's mane, and flew toward the turn.†
Chpt 2.19
- For George Woolf, the last sensations of life were the sight of Santa Anita's russet soil and the curve of Please Me's neck, the coarse feel of mane in his hands, the smell of the horse's skin, the deep roll of his breathing.†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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(1)
(mane) long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, mane can refer to long coarse hair on another animal; or even to a person's hair.