| 单词 | cow-pony |
| 释义 | > as lemmascow-pony cow-pony n. U.S. a pony used in cattle ranching. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for herding cattle stock horse1846 cow-horse1853 cow-pony1874 cutting horse1881 cutting pony1887 1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 126 A few short weeks after the opening of the cattle trade..every stall— fully one hundred or more—would be full of cow ponies. 1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 156 [In Texas] the cowboy is the cattle-herder and drover. A cow-pony the mustang he trains and uses. 1884 W. Shepherd Prairie Experiences 35 The origin of the cow-ponies is the bronco. 1902 O. Wister Virginian i. 1 They were cow ponies in a corral, and one of them would not be caught, no matter who threw the rope. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 29 May 5/3 Racing a cow-pony against a train on the first railway made in Colorado near Denver. 1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy iii. 27 The cow-ponies, trained in the art of punching cows. 1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Nov. 855/3 There are still thousands of cow-ponies trained to follow a galloping steer. < as lemmas |
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