gunbroke
English
Etymology
gun + broke
Alternate forms
- gun-broke
Adjective
gunbroke (not comparable)
- (of a horse) Trained not to spook when a gun is shot nearby.
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 42:
- Well hold his horse. He might not be gunbroke.
- 2009, Will Armstrong, Jordan Land, page 122:
- Most o' the horses are gunbroke an' they're less likely to spook than the cattle.
- 2014, Aaron Gwyn, Wynne's War: A Novel, page 114:
- 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.