oat-burner
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A horse.
noun
A film, radio or television show, or theatrical production set in the Old West; horse opera.
Example Sentences
- "He's not just your basic oat-burner who runs because he's taught to."
- "“I'd like to see his face when Taral puts the collar on that oat-burner in the stretch,” he says. “That boy can make a horse run backwards.”"
- "We'll never make hundreds of miles on this oat-burner. He'll still be close enough to his own farm that someone will recognize him eventually."
- "Even though we were dead serious about this oat-burner, the home audiences probably collapsed when, along with the Old West dialogue and scenes, they heard the honking and screeching noises of automobiles or the roaring of airplanes overhead."
- "Here are the two lead sentences in the liner notes for a recently released western, an oat-burner just out on video called Covenant Rider."
- "In this oat-burner, the hero, played by Buck Jones, is supposedly a full-blooded Bannock pony express rider who falls head over heels for a white woman."