Crossword-Solution: HORSELAUGH 10 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Putting all this together, we can't be many miles from the French coast, and, unless we look sharp and beat to windward, I pronounce the ship in danger.” A horselaugh greeted this conclusion.

His effrontery did not fail to produce its effect upon Sir John De Walton, who instantly called out, "To arms! to arms!--Secure the spy and traitor! Ho! pages and yeomen--William, Anthony, Bend-the-bow, and Greenleaf--seize the traitor, and bind him with your bow-strings and dog-leashes--bind him, I say, until the blood start from beneath his nails!" "Here is a goodly summons!" said Turnbull, with a sort of horselaugh.

Note: Horse is much used adjectively and in composition to signify of, or having to do with, a horse or horses, like a horse, etc.; as, horse collar, horse dealer or horsehorsehoe, horse jockey; and hence, often in the sense of strong, loud, coarse, etc.; as, horselaugh, horse nettle or horse-nettle, horseplay, horse ant, etc.

Maybe this will get us only a horselaugh for our trouble, but let's see what they think." They went into the next laboratory and laid the prints before Ken's father and his associates.

But handing such a story to any official as true data would get the doctor nothing but a horselaugh--at the least--and possibly a trip to the looney-bin for observation.