Test Your Vocabulary

Take Our 10-Question Quiz

Name That Thing

Take our visual vocab quiz

Test Your Knowledge »

True or False?

A quick quiz about stuff worth knowing

Take It Now »

Join Us on FB & Twitter

Get the Word of the Day and More

Facebook | Twitter

cutting horse


cutting horse

noun

Definition of CUTTING HORSE

: an agile saddle horse trained to separate individual animals from a cattle herd

First Known Use of CUTTING HORSE

1881

Browse

Next Word in the Dictionary: cutting oil
Previous Word in the Dictionary: cutting head
All Words Near: cutting horse

Seen & Heard

What made you want to look up cutting horse? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).