cow horse†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a horse trained to work with cattle; a cowboy's horse.

Quotations

1902 [?]

The next race was . . . a cow horse binding race, a zigzag course around posts.

1962

A good cow horse will get the cow, while the cowboy looks after himself.