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re·mu·da

 (rĭ-mo͞o′də)
n. Southwestern US
A herd of horses from which ranch hands select their mounts.

[American Spanish, change of horses, remuda, from Spanish, exchange, from remudar, to exchange : re-, in return (from Latin; see re-) + mudar, to change (from Latin mūtāre; see mei- in Indo-European roots).]
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remuda

(rɪˈmjuːdə; rɪˈmuːdə)
n
Southwestern US a stock of horses from which the horses for the next day are chosen
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re•mu•da

(rəˈmu də)

n., pl. -das. Chiefly Southwestern U.S.
a group of horses from which ranch hands choose mounts for the day.
[1835–45; < American Spanish: a change (of horses), Sp: exchange, derivative of remudar to change, replace =re- re- + mudar to change (< Latin mūtāre)]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.remuda - the herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen
herd - a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
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A remuda of horses, some spotted, grassed in the distance, while overhead, an osprey, ever the opportunist, eyed the same river we did, for the same fish.
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Ranchers often choose a general-purpose pipe-and-panel stock trailer with at least one fore-aft partition to haul everything from calves to the whole remuda. Those trailers can easily handle a small tractor with implements and also move the teenager off to college (you might want to clean it first, depending on your teen).
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Residents in the Crossroads, Edgington and Remuda areas remain under a Level 2, pre-evacuation alert (west of the 16 Road and South of Highway 20 in the vicinity of Sisters).
Their plan, to attack him in his sleep, is thwarted by Jim's voice, the very quality that proved his integrity from the start: But he sang in his dreams, so raw he sucked us inside his fevered innards: a cloudburst of a horse rising to a stolen remuda as if all Mexico was raided: stallions, peg ponies, hogbacks-- Git out he cried yet we were boiled inside him where we saw a cross-dressing squaw in chaps, charging that mutant, mural herd through Bodietown, trampling down our tallowed kip tents, knocking down engine cars packed with forfeit ore--Git out.
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