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cutting horse

cutting horse noun: a horse which has been trained to assist its rider in managing livestock by separating selected animals from a herd.

Noun

cutting horse (plural cutting horses)

  1. A horse which has been trained to assist its rider in managing livestock by separating selected animals from a herd.
    • The average cow can dodge and turn quicker than the ordinary horse. . . . Cunning and ingenuity, combined with the required alertness, a perfect rein, coupled with years of actual work, produce that rarest of range mounts—the cutting horse.1911, Andy Adams, chapter 21, in Wells Brothers
    • A cutting horse needs high spirits and a high I.Q. His highly specialized ranch job is to nose into a herd and cut away calves marked for market.1953 April 13, “Sport: Cutting Horse”, in Time, retrieved 08 May 2014

Forms of cutting horse

pluralcutting horses
alternative formcutting-horse

Questions about cutting horse

What does cutting horse mean?
Cutting horse means a horse which has been trained to assist its rider in managing livestock by separating selected animals from a herd.
What part of speech is cutting horse?
Cutting horse is a noun.
What is the plural of cutting horse?
The plural of cutting horse is cutting horses.

Words near cutting horse in the dictionary

  1. cutting fluid
  2. cutting fluids
  3. cutting for sign
  4. cutting garden
  5. cutting gardens
  6. cutting horse
  7. cutting horses
  8. cutting in
  9. cutting in line
  10. cutting into
  11. cutting it

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