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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stalking-horse has 4 senses

• stalking-horse(n = noun.person) - a candidate put forward to divide the Opposition or to mask the true candidate;
is a kind of campaigner, candidate, nominee

• stalking-horse(n = noun.communication) pretext - something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason;
is a kind of dissembling, feigning, pretence, pretense
has particulars: putoff

• stalking-horse(n = noun.artifact) - screen consisting of a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game;
is a kind of concealment, cover, covert, screen

• stalking-horse(n = noun.animal) - a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game;
is a kind of equus caballus, horse

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stalking-horse

Pretext

N pretext, pretense, pretension, plea, allegation, advocation, ostensible motive, ostensible ground, ostensible reason, phony reason, excuse, subterfuge, color, gloss, guise, cover, loop hole, starting hole, how to creep out of, salvo, come off, way of escape, handle, peg to hang on, room locus standi, stalking-horse, cheval de bataille, cue, pretense, put off, dust thrown in the eyes, blind, moonshine, mere pretext, shallow pretext, lame excuse, lame apology, tub to a whale, false plea, sour grapes, makeshift, shift, white lie, special pleading, soft sawder, ostensibly, alleged, apologetic, pretended, ostensibly, under color, under the plea, under the pretense of, under the guise of.

Precursor

N precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor, forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider, leader, bellwether, herald, harbinger, foreboding, dawn, avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker, prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction, heading, frontispiece, groundwork, preparation, overture, exordium, symphony, premises, prefigurement, omen, precursory, prelusive, prelusory, preludious, proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary, precedent, a precedent embalms a principle.