Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Spanish-American countries, a cattle-farm or ranch.

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  • noun long mesa on the flank of a mountain

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Examples

  • Unlike some of Timbuk2's offerings, the Commander is only available in black, an olive nylon "potrero" and a gray gunmetal.

    Gear Diary Jason Reese 2010

  • If he was Argentinian you'd call him potrero, learning close control and cunning as a necessity.

    Real Madrid find 'Nemo' to their liking as Mesut Ozil settles in well 2011

  • Definitely check out the curiosity shoppe in the mission, dandelion in potrero hill and the coolest florist in town, birch in pacific heights. welcome to sf!

    San Francisco 2008

  • Fortunately for us, the local vaqueros pass by in the potrero on the other side of the street, not down the street itself.

    more pavement? 2004

  • A cart yoked with five horses abreast stood by the galpon; a flock of geese walked with disdainful, important gait across the potrero; and the viscashos popped in and out of their holes with busy importance, like children keeping house.

    Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

  • A tidy item that — sixty to seventy thousand dollars 'worth of mule flesh; and the superintendent, over the phone, orders the moving of the mule herd to another potrero away from the line of Federal driftage.

    Our Adventurers in Tampico 1914

  • Half a league of ditch was also dug around the potrero (pasture ground) and fields.

    The Old Franciscan Missions Of California George Wharton James 1890

  • [FOOTNOTE 61: potrero -- (Spanish) pasture, grassland] "The boys was smokin 'cut plug and dried mesquite leaves mixed when I left," sighed Mustang Taylor, horse wrangler of the Three Elm camp.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

  • "You've sure got a case of happenedicitis," said Poky Rodgers, fency rider of the Largo Verde _potrero_ [61].

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

  • On the other side of the hedge was the _potrero_, or paddock, where a milch-cow with two or three horses were kept.

    The Purple Land 1881

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