flying horse—
1. hippogriff (a mythical animal having the foreparts of a winged griffin and the body of a horse):
- Harry Potter has to overcome the trauma of having a Hippogriff (Flying Horse) destroyed by the authorities.
2. the constellation Pegasus:
- Pegasus the Flying Horse is a fall constellation, not resembling a horse as much as it does a flying brick.
3. (Wrestling) maneuver in which the contestant seizes an opponent’s wrist, turns about, and jerks him over his back:
- They get advice on suitable clothing when wrestling and instruction on moves such as “The Flying Horse.”
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase flying sea-horse—(also: sea-horse) fish of peculiar form, with body somewhat like a horse’s head:
- They have at times been classified with other groups of fish. These strange looking creatures are also known as “flying sea horses.”
flying mare— = flying horse 3:
- Many worked stones survive as relics; they include statue bases with the reliefs of wrestlers (one attempting the “flying mare” throw).