Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cutting horse

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English

Syllables: cut-ting horse
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A horse which has been trained to assist its rider in managing livestock by separating selected animals from a herd.

Example Sentences

"The average cow can dodge and turn quicker than the ordinary horse. . . . Cunning and ingenuity, combined with the required alertness, a perfect rein, coupled with years of actual work, produce that rarest of range mounts—the cutting horse."
"A cutting horse needs high spirits and a high I.Q. His highly specialized ranch job is to nose into a herd and cut away calves marked for market."
"[T]he other day Magnus, our 300-pound Tamworth boar, got out. . . . Remedy, the retired cutting horse, cut left and right, agile as a cat, flaring and snorting, to keep Magnus at bay."

Inflected Forms

cutting horses (plural) cutting-horse (alternative)

Questions

What does cutting horse mean?: A horse which has been trained to assist its rider in managing livestock by separating selected animals from a herd.

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