oat-burner

plural oat-burners · alternative oat burner

1. A horse.

   He's not just your basic oat-burner who runs because he's taught to.

   2008, Sharon Brondos, White Lightning, →ISBN, page 60

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   “I'd like to see his face when Taral puts the collar on that oat-burner in the stretch,” he says. “That boy can make a horse run backwards.”

   2011, John Sayles, A Moment in the Sun, →ISBN

   We'll never make hundreds of miles on this oat-burner. He'll still be close enough to his own farm that someone will recognize him eventually.

   2013, Gordon Korman, On the Run #5: Public Enemies, →ISBN

2. A film, radio or television show, or theatrical production set in the Old West; horse opera.

   Here are the two lead sentences in the liner notes for a recently released western, an oat-burner just out on video called Covenant Rider.

   1996 March-April, John Brown, “Don't Shoot, Pastor”, in American Cowboy, volume 2, number 6, page 30

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   Even though we were dead serious about this oat-burner, the home audiences probably collapsed when, along with the Old West dialogue and scenes, they heard the honking and screeching noises of automobiles or the roaring of airplanes overhead.

   1994, Guy LeBow, Watch Your Cleavage, Check Your Zipper!, →ISBN, page 3

   In this oat-burner, the hero, played by Buck Jones, is supposedly a full-blooded Bannock pony express rider who falls head over heels for a white woman.

   1998, Ward Churchill, Fantasies of the Master Race, →ISBN, page 193