Cayuse (Noun)
Meaning
A small native range horse.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The range manager recommended removing a cayuse that had been adopted but not fitted for trail work, back to its familiar western meadow.
- Wielding a long rope and speaking softly, the experienced livestock handler led the captured feral cayuse carefully into the stock trailer.
- Once having re-acclimated to its free-range liberty, the re-wilded cayuse demonstrated speed over slope and slope and ability over dense forest.
- Still present after being re-rated both from horse count view and habitat analysis review, the well-fraught small stock units of the smaller cayuse thrived by getting its feed through wet years following years of great drought.
- Cayuse were small horses so named by settlers in America who'd adopted the Chinook jargon term for the many small native horses from the Columbia River region to Montana.