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cutting horses

cutting horses is the plural of cutting horse.

Meaning of cutting horse

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

Questions about cutting horses

What is cutting horses the plural of?
Cutting horses is the plural of cutting horse.

Words near cutting horses in the dictionary

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

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