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cavayard, cavy-yard U.S.|ˈkævə-, ˈkævɪjɑːd|
Also cavvi-, cavvie-yard, caviarde; cavvieyeh, caviya.
[Var. of cavallard, with y for Sp. ll.]
A drove of horses.
α1847W. B. Dewees Lett. fr. Texas (1852) 3 Mar. 301 Two hundred dollars would be sufficient to purchase a cavayard of twenty [mares]. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp-Hunters xxvi, How are 'ee gwine to get at it with this cavayard 'ithout makin' sign?
β1821S. F. Austin in Texas Hist. Quart. VII. 288 Erasmo had captured a Caviard of mules & horses. 1824W. B. Dewees Lett. fr. Texas (1852) viii. 53 Corasco..was driving a large cavyyard of horses and mules to Louisiana. 1836D. B. Edward Hist. Texas 107 When this powerful tribe wishes to raise the wind as the saying is, they will cavy back a Mexican cavy-yard. 1853‘P. Paxton’ Stray Yankee in Texas 97 Two or three more [men] were mounted, and sent into the prairie in search of the ‘caviarde’ of horses—and we went in to dinner. 1874J. C. McCoy Hist. Sk. Cattle Trade 11 The extra horses not under the saddle are called the cavvie-yard, and are driven behind the camp wagon. 1901Munsey's Mag. XXV. 404/2 Each man roped a fresh horse from the cavviyard. 1942E. E. Dale Cow Country 47 The band of horses..known as..the caballado, sometimes corrupted into ‘cavvy yard’, ‘cavalry yard’, or ‘cavvy’.
γ1908C. E. Mulford Orphan ii. 24 He was soon able to count seven warriors who were driving another ‘cavvieyeh’ of horses. 1920― J. Nelson xxiv. 267 The caviya of a hundred and thirty saddle horses. 1940E. Fergusson Our Southwest 32 Unskilled boys wrangled the horse herd, called the ‘caviya’. |