α. 1800s– remuda.
β. U.S. regional (Texas) 1900s– remoother, 1900s– remutha, 1900s– remuthar.
remudan.
/rəˈmuːdə/, U.S. /rəˈmudə/ North American (originally U.S.).† 1. A fresh horse; an instance of changing horses. Obsolete.
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1849 H. A. Wise Los Gringos xxxiv. 252 There was not a remuda—change—to be had for love or money in San Juan de Lagos; all the horses having been secured and carried into the country during the pronunciamentos.
1874 Appleton's Jrnl. 26 Dec. 404/2 We soon stopped for a remuda at a village of three or four huts.
2. A group of riding horses out of which a fresh mount may be selected as the need arises. Cf. remount n. 1.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for riding > group or supply of
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1892 Dial. Notes 1 251 Remuda, a ‘bunch’ of horses, about a score. Usually applied to geldings only.
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy 9 The remuda, under Bill Honeyman as horsewrangler, numbered a hundred and forty-two, ten horses to the man.
1923 C. E. Mulford Black Buttes ii. 23 Three days passed in hard and earnest search, each man's remuda pretty well tired out before the work was finished.
1972 T. A. Bulman Kamloops Cattlemen ii. 15 They usually brought with them a pretty fair remuda of horses.
1994 A. Cameron Wedding Cakes, Rats & Rodeo Queens p. xviii Mz Kitty was rounding up the remuda. Did you ever wonder what happened to all those friggin' horses in all those friggin' movies?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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