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tania | 23:22 Tue 24th Feb 2004 | Animals & Nature
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what is the term for a cowboys spare horse?
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A spare horse? as in extra, like spare time, or thin like crow bait, or frugal as in sparingly, or duplicate as in spare part, or a horse that is called in when the ten pin is left standing?
16:04 Fri 27th Feb 2004
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Ornery critter?
21:17 Fri 27th Feb 2004
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remuda or cavvy, the herd of cowboys' spare horses
11:17 Sat 28th Feb 2004
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Remuda - A term adopted to refer to the large herd of extra horses gathered for roundups or trail drives. Each cowboy had a string of six or cowponies for his use.

http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections/smith/glos
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woofgang beat me to it :-)

11:23 Sat 28th Feb 2004
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what's interesting is how I got the answer, I just googled "cowboy's spare horse"
09:56 Mon 01st Mar 2004

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