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caballada U.S.|kæbəˈlɑːdə|
Also caballado, cavallado, cavayado.
[Sp., f. caballo horse. Cf. cavallard.]
A herd or train of horses (or mules, etc.).
1841W. L. MacCalla Adventures in Texas 57 (Bentley), Fifty or sixty horses.., forty of which were from one caballado. 1844J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies I. 27 [The Indians] drove off the entire caballada of near five hundred head of horses, mules, and asses. 1844G. W. Kendall Santa Fé Exped. (1855) I. 97 Nothing can exceed the grandeur of the scene when a large cavallada, or drove of horses, takes a ‘scare’. 1900Smithwick Evol. State 22 He had his caballada driven in for us to choose from. 1901in Kansas Hist. Coll. (1902) VII. 52, I was driving a cavayado... The Mexicans always drove their cavayado in front of their trains. |