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oat-burner

oat-burner noun: a horse.

Noun

oat-burner (plural oat-burners)

  1. A horse.
    • He's not just your basic oat-burner who runs because he's taught to.2008, Sharon Brondos, White Lightning, →ISBN, page 60
    • “I'd like to see his face when Taral puts the collar on that oat-burner in the stretch,” he says. “That boy can make a horse run backwards.”2011, John Sayles, A Moment in the Sun, →ISBN
  2. A film, radio or television show, or theatrical production set in the Old West; horse opera.
    • Even though we were dead serious about this oat-burner, the home audiences probably collapsed when, along with the Old West dialogue and scenes, they heard the honking and screeching noises of automobiles or the roaring of airplanes overhead.1994, Guy LeBow, Watch Your Cleavage, Check Your Zipper!, →ISBN, page 3
    • Here are the two lead sentences in the liner notes for a recently released western, an oat-burner just out on video called Covenant Rider.1996 March-April, John Brown, “Don't Shoot, Pastor”, in American Cowboy, volume 2, number 6, page 30

Examples of oat-burner in a sentence

  • We'll never make hundreds of miles on this oat-burner.2013, Gordon Korman, On the Run #5: Public Enemies, →ISBN:
  • In this oat-burner, the hero, played by Buck Jones, is supposedly a full-blooded Bannock pony express rider who falls head over heels for a white woman.1998, Ward Churchill, Fantasies of the Master Race, →ISBN, page 193:

Forms of oat-burner

pluraloat-burners
alternative formoat burner

Questions about oat-burner

What does oat-burner mean?
Oat-burner means a horse.
How do you use oat-burner in a sentence?
We'll never make hundreds of miles on this oat-burner.
What part of speech is oat-burner?
Oat-burner is a noun.
What is the plural of oat-burner?
The plural of oat-burner is oat-burners.

Words near oat-burner in the dictionary

  1. oat milks
  2. oat opera
  3. oat operas
  4. oat soda
  5. oat sodas
  6. oat-burner
  7. oat-burners
  8. oat-like
  9. oat-opera
  10. oat-operas
  11. oatbread

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