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单词 cow-pony
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cow-pony
cow-pony n. U.S. a pony used in cattle ranching.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for herding cattle
stock horse1846
cow-horse1853
cow-pony1874
cutting horse1881
cutting pony1887
1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 126 A few short weeks after the opening of the cattle trade..every stall— fully one hundred or more—would be full of cow ponies.
1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 156 [In Texas] the cowboy is the cattle-herder and drover. A cow-pony the mustang he trains and uses.
1884 W. Shepherd Prairie Experiences 35 The origin of the cow-ponies is the bronco.
1902 O. Wister Virginian i. 1 They were cow ponies in a corral, and one of them would not be caught, no matter who threw the rope.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 29 May 5/3 Racing a cow-pony against a train on the first railway made in Colorado near Denver.
1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy iii. 27 The cow-ponies, trained in the art of punching cows.
1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Nov. 855/3 There are still thousands of cow-ponies trained to follow a galloping steer.
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