Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small sturdy horse, especially a Cayuse Indian pony.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pony or small horse; specifically, an Indian pony of the peculiar breed formerly in use among the Cayuse Indians of the northern Rocky Mountains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Northw. U. S. An Indian pony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US a small
Indian horse orpony
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small native range horse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That night the manager spent at the logging camp of Alpine, and early the following morning he rode a mountain cayuse up Antelope Valley.
Chapter II 2010
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She should have the gentlest "cayuse" in the "bunch," and the foreman would do the guiding, himself.
'Firebrand' Trevison Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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The "cayuse" bell sounded nearer and nearer, and directly from the dense forest a packhorse came stepping with care over the fallen logs, where the sign of a trail was yet dim to any eyes but those of a woodsman.
That Girl Montana Marah Ellis Ryan 1900
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"I hear the 'cayuse' bell," he remarked; "so the others are coming.
That Girl Montana Marah Ellis Ryan 1900
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Twice she rode over on a cayuse all the way from Samson's Flat, an 'I was sorry for the young creature.
Chapter II 2010
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He'll let nineteen go by without batting an eye, and mebbe the twentieth, just because he's feeling frisky, he'll cut up over like a range cayuse.
Chapter XI 2010
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Like "axion" and "cayuse." ... dont like my word, challenge it using the official scrabble dictionary and see what happens.
dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008
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Willie Palmer's stallion was no twenty dollar cayuse
Four Rode By 1998
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He saddled his fiery cayuse, determined to flourish round
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He robs a pore half-breed of a cayuse, and shoots up a Chink who's panning tailings, and generally and variously becomes too pronounced, till he's run outen camp.
yarb commented on the word cayuse
"The cayuse isn't foaled yet here on Quien Sabe that can throw me, nor the dog whelped that would dare show his teeth at me."
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, ch. 5
August 15, 2008
5814738 commented on the word cayuse
"And where's the horse that could support him through a day of range-riding? Roland thought. I'd like to see the cut of that Cayuse." From Wizard and Glass by Stephen King.
January 27, 2011
bilby commented on the word cayuse
Visuals fail.
January 24, 2016