Usually means: Biting fly, pest to livestock.
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  1. horse fly: Vocabulary.com
  2. horse-fly: Wordnik
  3. horse-fly: Wiktionary
  4. horse fly: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Horse fly, horse fly: Dictionary.com
  6. Horse-fly, Horse fly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. horse fly: Rhymezone
  8. horse fly: FreeDictionary.org
  9. horse fly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. horse fly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Horse-fly, horse fly: Encyclopedia

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  1. Horse-fly, horse fly: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Horse fly)

noun:  Alternative spelling of horsefly [Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).]

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