remuda
Americannoun
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remudas
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Etymology
Origin of remuda
An Americanism first recorded in 1835–45: from Latin American Spanish (Mexico): “a change (of horses),” Spanish: “exchange,” derivative of remudar “to change, replace,” equivalent to re- re- + mudar “to change” (from Latin mūtāre )
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Their nephew, Charley Hellen III, demonstrates vaquero horsemanship skills with the ranch remuda.
From Time Magazine Archive
The finest looking horse in the remuda, by all odds, was old Wa-ha-lote, the Water-dog.
From Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge
They ain't a bronk in the remuda that can't throw this Englishman a mile!
From Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge
The man to whom Cuchillo had given his orders, immediately saddled his horse and set off to collect the remuda.
From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid
Juan, have the remuda driven up253 and let every man saddle his horse.
From Steve Yeager by William MacLeod Raine
The horse breaking was almost completed, except allotting them into remudas, assigning bell mares, and putting each band under herd for a week or ten days.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams
I had enough picked ones to make up a dozen remudas if necessary, and rested easy on that score.
From Reed Anthony, Cowman by Andy Adams
Throw the remudas together and let them start the moment the cattle train leaves.
From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams
He was a showy animal, a dapple gray, fully fifteen hands high, bred in north Texas, and belonged to one of the whole remudas bought in Dodge.
From The Outlet by Andy Adams
The next morning the accepted cattle were counted and received, the through outfits relieved, the remudas started overland under a detail, and the remainder of the men sent home by rail.
From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams
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