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potrero|pəʊˈtrɛərəʊ|
[Sp., f. potro.]
1. In the S.W. United States and South America, a paddock or pasture for horses or cattle.
1848J. A. Sutter New Helvetia Diary (MS.) 7 Mar., 6 Men have been sent from the Race, on acct. having no tools, employed them to get the small potrero repaired. 1886T. S. Van Dyke Southern Calif. viii. 106 When, in the heat of day, one comes to some little potrero where pine-clad hills inclose a soft green meadow, [etc.]. 1892Dialect Notes I. 193 Potréro, a pasture, generally for colts and young horses. Also a piece of land easily fenced in, situated in the bend of a stream or in a valley with a narrow pass for entrance. 1923C. F. Saunders Southern Sierras Calif. iii. 105 Ahead in the sun lay the Devil's Potrero—a verdant, wild-flowery bowl rimmed around with mountains. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Mar. 214/2 He was found to be capable of milking exceptionally large numbers of untamed cows, which were driven straight from a ‘potrero’ into a ‘corral’. 1933A. F. Tschiffely Tschiffely's Ride (1934) 5 Large herds of cattle grazing in the ‘potreros’ (paddocks). 1950H. Backhouse Among Gauchos xiii. 117 It is customary to kill and skin the cattle in the consumo potrero or paddock reserved for cattle that are to be slaughtered. 1960G. J. Butland Lat. Amer. xx. 287 This is the Uruguayan pastoral region par excellence; a land of cattle and sheep estancias with paddocks or potreros fenced and managed to secure the best seasonal use of the grass.
2. In the S.W. United States, a narrow steep-sided plateau or mesa.
1872J. G. Bourke Diary (MS.) 3 Dec., Hills break away in potreros. 1880A. F. Bandelier Southwestern Jrnls. (1966) I. 135 There are three ruins—one, on the Potrero de las Vacas, about one day's journey northwest. 1890― in Papers Archaeol. Inst. Amer. IV. 158 These cliffs appear like pillars or gigantic posts; hence their Spanish name ‘Potreros’. The one forming the southern wall of the Cuesta Colorada gorge is an extensive plateau called Potrero Chato. 1940E. Fergusson Our Southwest xix. 354 A potrero is a narrow ridge between canyons, and a saddle is a sag between peaks. 1953B. P. Dutton Hewett's Pajarito Plateau (ed. 2) iii. iii. 104 The long, narrow potrero bounding the canyon on the north is entirely cut out for a distance of nearly a mile, thus throwing into one squarish open park the width of two small canyons and the formerly intervening mesa. 1966in A. F. Bandelier Southwestern Jrnls. Gloss. 397 Potrero, pastureland; in New Mexico, a tongue of high ground. |