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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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[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
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"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
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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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