gunbroke

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adjective

Trained not to spook when a gun is fired nearby.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivegunbroke (not comparable)

alternative gun-broke

  1. not comparableTrained not to spook when a gun is fired nearby.

    Well hold his horse. He might not be gunbroke.

    1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 42
    2 more examples

    Most o' the horses are gunbroke an' they're less likely to spook than the cattle.

    2009, Will Armstrong, Jordan Land, page 122

    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

Origin

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