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buffalo run Hist. 
1 n. a buffalo hunt in which the animals were pursued on horseback rather than impounded.
See also: buffalo race course run ((n.)) (def. 2)
- c1912 (1912) The white blood of the plains' trapper preferred a fair fight in an open field--not the indiscriminate carnage of the Indian hunt; so that the greatest buffalo-runs took place after the opening of spring.
- 1860 Every one has seen or read of a buffalo run so it is needless . . . to describe it here.
- 1935 . . . a Hudson's Bay officer . . . participated in a buffalo run for the first time (1874).
2 n. a trail made and frequented by buffalo.
See also: buffalo trail
- 1910 Behind the house . . . was an old "buffalo run," a narrow path, grass-grown now, but beaten deep into the earth by the hoofs of innumerable buffalo. . . .
- 1933 . . . in the vicinity of the post, where an old buffalo run can still be traced.
- c1912 (1912) The white blood of the plains' trapper preferred a fair fight in an open field--not the indiscriminate carnage of the Indian hunt; so that the greatest buffalo-runs took place after the opening of spring.