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What (who) is wooden horse - definition
Wooden horse (device)
A TORTURE DEVICE THAT ROUGHLY RESEMBLES A NECKLESS HORSE
Spanish donkey
A wooden horse, Chevalet (as it was called in Spain), Spanish donkey or cavaletto squarciapalle, is a torture device, of which there exist two variations; both inflict pain by using the subject's own weight by keeping the legs open, tied with ropes from above, while lowering down the subject. The French called this instrument the chevalet, from the French diminutive of cheval, horse.
The Wooden Camera
2003 SOUTH AFRICAN FILM DIRECTED BY NTSHAVHENI WA LURULI
Wooden Camera
The Wooden Camera is a 2003 South African film directed by Ntshavheni wa Luruli and starring Junior Singo, Dana de Agrella, and Innocent Msimango.
Trojan Horse
![The [[Mykonos vase]] (750 to 650 BC), with one of the earliest known renditions of the Trojan Horse (note the depiction of the faces of hidden warriors shown on the horse's side)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mykonos vase.jpg?width=200 "The [[Mykonos vase]] (750 to 650 BC), with one of the earliest known renditions of the Trojan Horse (note the depiction of the faces of hidden warriors shown on the horse's side)")
![Sinon is brought to Priam, from folio 101r of the [[Roman Vergil]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RomanVirgilFolio101r.jpg?width=200 "Sinon is brought to Priam, from folio 101r of the [[Roman Vergil]].")
![Depiction of the Trojan Horse on a Corinthian [[aryballos]] (ca. 560 BC) found in [[Cerveteri]] (Italy)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Trojan horse on corintian aryballos.JPG?width=200 "Depiction of the Trojan Horse on a Corinthian [[aryballos]] (ca. 560 BC) found in [[Cerveteri]] (Italy)")
![Warriors leaving the Trojan Horse, fragment of an attic black-figure [[krater]] from [[Orbetello]] (Italy), ca. 540 BC](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Antikensammlung Berlin 405.JPG?width=200 "Warriors leaving the Trojan Horse, fragment of an attic black-figure [[krater]] from [[Orbetello]] (Italy), ca. 540 BC")
![Domenico Tiepolo]] (1773), inspired by Virgil's ''[[Aeneid]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.jpg?width=200 "Domenico Tiepolo]] (1773), inspired by Virgil's ''[[Aeneid]]''")
![2004 film ''Troy'']], now on display in [[Çanakkale]], Turkey](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Replica of Trojan Horse - Canakkale Waterfront - Dardanelles - Turkey (5747677790).jpg?width=200 "2004 film ''Troy'']], now on display in [[Çanakkale]], Turkey")
TALE FROM TROJAN WAR
Trojan horses; Trojan Horses; Trojan horse; The trojan horse; The Trojan Horse; Gift horse; Trojan-horse; Wooden horse of Troy; Artistic representations of the Trojan Horse
¦ noun something intended to undermine or secretly overthrow an enemy or opponent.
?a program designed to breach the security of a computer system while ostensibly performing an innocuous function.
Origin
from the hollow wooden statue of a horse in which a number of Greeks are said to have concealed themselves in order to enter Troy.
Examples of use of wooden horse
1. There‘s a small children‘s playground in our square with a swing, a bouncy wooden horse and a couple of benches.
2. He countered the deprivations of prison life by tunnelling in an attempt to escape – events at the camp inspired the films The Wooden Horse and The Great Escape.
3. Why do the words "Troy" and "wooden horse" keep coming to mind? – Mike Mines, london uk Good for Ruth Kelly and Jack Straw!
4. He tried to escape and once almost reached Denmark from the Stalag Luft III camp in Poland (of wooden horse fame) before he was apprehended.
5. They describe the Trojan War and the return of Odysseus who devised the wooden horse that helped to end it to his palace on Ithaca.