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gunbroke en · ADJ

Etymology

From gun + broke.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, of a horse) Trained not to spook when a gun is fired nearby.
   • Most o' the horses are gunbroke an' they're less likely to spook than the cattle. 2009, Will Armstrong, Jordan Land, page 122:
   • Well hold his horse. He might not be gunbroke. 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 42:
   • They'll stand to be saddled and, long as nobody does anything ignorant, they're not likely to throw. Aren't any of them gunbroke, but we can get them that way. 2014, Aaron Gwyn, Wynne's War: A Novel, page 114:

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