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cavayard

cavayard is the alternative form of cavallard.

Meaning of cavallard

Noun

cavallard (plural cavallards)

  1. (US, obsolete) A group of horses or mules.
    • Far as the eye could reach the land was all his own; immense herds of cattle and cavallards of horses roamed over the hills; and the rich bottom-lands yielded him fabulous harvests of corn and cotton.1876, Amelia E. Barr, Romances and Realities: Tales of Truth and Fancy, page 35

Forms of cavayard

pluralcavayards

Questions about cavayard

What is cavayard the alternative form of?
Cavayard is the alternative form of cavallard.

Words near cavayard in the dictionary

  1. cavatines
  2. cavault
  3. cavaulted
  4. cavaulting
  5. cavaults
  6. cavayard
  7. Cavazos
  8. Cavazoses
  9. cave
  10. cave art
  11. cave bat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cavayard (page history and authors); cavallard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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