DCHP-2
buffalo pony Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a horse or pony trained for hunting buffalo.
See also: buffalo runner (def. 1)
- c1902 (1912) As soon as the rumbling and pawing began, Colonel Bedson used to send his herders out on the fleetest buffalo ponies to part the contestants. . . .
- 1908 The Abbé Dugas tells of another occasion when Marie was riding a buffalo pony--one of the horses used as a swift runner on the chase--her baby dangling in a moss bag from one of the saddle pommels.
- c1902 (1912) As soon as the rumbling and pawing began, Colonel Bedson used to send his herders out on the fleetest buffalo ponies to part the contestants. . . .