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What is a Centaur?

What is a Centaur? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Greek) One of a race of monsters having a head, torso, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse. Often depicted as rowdy drunkards, with Chiron being a notable exception.
  2. A skillful horseman or horsewoman.
  3. (rocketry) A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.
  4. (astronomy) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune
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The victorious Centaur rears up above the Lapith, and is about to hurl a great stone, or perhaps a hydria, with both hands.
An attempted restoration of a combat between a lapith and a Centaur is exhibited.
The Royal Australian Navy has confirmed that a wreck located 10 nautical miles east of Cape Moreton is not the Centaur.
A bearded Lapith plunges the very long head of his thrusting-spear into the breast of a Centaur who defends himself with a rock.
I had always thought that the Centaur was a mythical beast, but obviously the Greek aristocracy know where to find them.
The show will be remounted in Montreal this summer in its French version, followed by another staging of the English version at the Centaur in the fall.

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