mavericking

Verb

maverick (third-person singular simple present mavericks, present participle mavericking, simple past and past participle mavericked)

1. (US) To take an unbranded range animal.
   • The court permitted the State to prove, over defendant's objections, that Thedford met Noon Tucker and Calvery driving the yearling over to Bachelor's for delivery. Thedford inquired of Noon “if that [meaning the yearling] was one he had mavericked?”1887, A. M. Jackson; A. M. Jackson, Jr., Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Texas, Austin, Tx.: Hutchings Printing House, →OCLC, page 514
2. (broadly) To seize without a legal claim.

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