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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One whose business is the taming of unruly horses; a horse-breaker.

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Examples

  • But fancy our astonishment when, suddenly, this Sarmatian horse-tamer, coming round with his four pair at a canter, and being opposite our box, gave a start, and a — hupp! which made all his horses stop stock-still at an instant.

    Cox's Diary 2006

  • The horse-tamer, to music twenty miles an hour, rushed in on four of his horses, leading the other four, and skurried round the ring.

    Cox's Diary 2006

  • Sarmatian horse-tamer bowed his great feathers to the ground.

    Burlesques 2006

  • But fancy our astonishment when, suddenly, this Sarmatian horse-tamer, coming round with his four pair at a canter, and being opposite our box, gave a start, and a — hupp! which made all his horses stop stock-still at an instant.

    Burlesques 2006

  • Sarmatian horse-tamer bowed his great feathers to the ground.

    Cox's Diary 2006

  • The horse-tamer, to music twenty miles an hour, rushed in on four of his horses, leading the other four, and skurried round the ring.

    Burlesques 2006

  • A horse-tamer might be Roan, Tamer, or Cob, for instance.

    The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • Rarey, the celebrated horse-tamer, said that an angry word would sometimes raise the pulse of

    In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty Ralph Waldo Trine 1912

  • Father talked a good deal to me about Rarey, the great horse-tamer, and it put ideas into my head.

    Beautiful Joe Marshall Saunders 1904

  • It was not long after the advent of the famous horse-tamer John S. Rarey, of whom she had been a pupil in America when he first came out.

    The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

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