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cutting horse † West 
a horse specially trained to separate cattle, one by one, from a herd.
- 1955 [He] was astraddle his buckskin cutting horse, dangerously close to the caved-in end of the porch.
- 1962 This practice originated today's cutting-horse competitions.
- 1962 . . . "cutting" horses . . . by instinct and by training . . . will bring out a beast from the herd without disturbing the rest of the cattle, or they may be required to hold a bunch from breaking back.
- 1955 [He] was astraddle his buckskin cutting horse, dangerously close to the caved-in end of the porch.