a group of saddle horses from which ranch hands choose mounts for the day.
Origin: 1835–45, Americanism; < AmerSp: a change (of horses), Sp: exchange, deriv. of remudar to change, replace, equiv. to re-re-+ mudar to change (< L mūtāre)
re·mu·da (rĭ-mōō'də) n.
Southwestern U.S. A herd of horses from which ranch hands select their mounts.
[American Spanish, change of horses, remuda, from Spanish, exchange, from remudar, to exchange : re-, in return (from Latin; see re-) + mudar, to change (from Latin mūtāre; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots).]