Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose business is the taming of unruly horses; a horse-breaker.
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Examples
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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
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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
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Sarmatian horse-tamer bowed his great feathers to the ground.
Burlesques 2006
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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
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Sarmatian horse-tamer bowed his great feathers to the ground.
Cox's Diary 2006
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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
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A horse-tamer might be Roan, Tamer, or Cob, for instance.
The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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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
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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
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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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