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cayuse
1[ kahy-yoos, kahy-oos ]
noun
- Western U.S. a horse, especially an Indian pony.
- Also called cayuse wind. Northwestern U.S. a cold wind blowing from the east.
Cayuse
2[ kahy-yoos, kahy-oos ]
noun
- a member of a tribe of North American Indians now living in Oregon.
cayuse
/ ˈkaɪuːs /
noun
- a small Native American pony used by cowboys
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Origin of cayuse1
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Example Sentences
For decades, they were swindled and demonized as “miserable Cayuse fiends.”
The school will soon offer five full scholarships to students from the Umatilla Reservation, where the Cayuse people live in northeast Oregon.
The Park Service has begun working with Cayuse experts to redo exhibits at the Whitman Mission National Historic Site.
Not much on looks, Bill, but a cayuse don't cover ground on his looks.
If you want to make a real cayuse out of your wooden horse, brand it and any cowboy who then sees it will take off his hat.
All that the soldiers had to eat for thirty days was the meat of a cayuse pony without salt.
The hills were dotted with sleek cattle and horses and the ever present cayuse, or Indian pony.
His incidents have a quaint individuality, as for instance the reproof from the Cayuse chief for the impiety of card-playing.
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