n. Southwestern US 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 the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] |
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