Cockhorse

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A child's rocking-horse. Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. Mother Goose.

2. A high or tall horse. [R.]

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.

2. Lofty in feeling; exultant; pround; upstart. Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry. Marlowe.