cayuse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Western US, historical: a small, hardy range horse or pony

   The rider chose a sure-footed cayuse for the steep mountain trail.

Recorded in nineteenth-century western North American English and associated with the name of the Cayuse people of the Pacific Northwest. The deeper origin and the precise path by which the name came to denote a range horse are uncertain.

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