stock horse

noun

, Western U.S.

1. a horse or pony used in herding cattle.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stock horse¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

But Beeswing was a bred stock-horse, she knew the game and loved it.

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Swerve as the hunted animal may, the old stock-horse never leaves the line.

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Once I stopped to look at Jim: I just sat back and the mare 'propped'—she'd been a stock-horse, and was used to 'cutting-out'.

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A surer, better stock horse was never ridden, and always ridden by the writer.

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They knew every foot of every trail in a badly broken country, and Chief, though sure-footed, was not a stock horse.

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