单词 | caballada |
释义 | caballadan. U.S. A herd or train of horses (or mules, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > drove or herd of standc1560 caballada1841 cavayard1851 manada1863 1841 W. L. MacCalla Adventures in Texas 57 (Bentley) Fifty or sixty horses.., forty of which were from one caballado. 1844 J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies I. 27 [The Indians] drove off the entire caballada of near five hundred head of horses, mules, and asses. 1844 G. W. Kendall Narr. 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’. a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1862) xii. 133 We shifted our little caballada to fresh grazing-spots sheltered by a brake. 1900 N. Smithwick Evol. State 22 He had his caballada driven in for us to choose from. 1901 in Kansas Hist. Coll. (1902) VII. 52 I was driving a cavayado... The Mexicans always drove their cavayado in front of their trains. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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