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longhorn
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n. long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States [syn: Texas longhorn ]
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Longhorn \Long"horn`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long-horned . The Texas longhorn .
Usage examples of longhorn.
A woman at Grand Ecore had given his description while telling of how two of her best horses and thirty head of longhorn cattle had been taken, and news of raids had been brought from Los Adais, an ancient town not far from Natchitoches that had been settled by Spanish priests.
The Spaniards came up the Calusa Hatchee to buy his longhorns at Cattle Dock Point, paying Old Jake in gold doubloons, which he left about in sacks, old wool socks, and cigar boxes.
The ceremony took place in the den, in front of the cavernous fireplace with its sweeping set of longhorns mounted above the stone mantelpiece.
Bill had to build a new one, and Cap'n Kidd had also run his prize stallion offa the ranch, an chawed the ears off of a longhorn bull, and busted into the barn and gobbled up about ten dollars worth of oats.
The AGM-89 Longhorn missile was able to lock onto a target once in flight, but without guidance corrections from the bombardier, its hit percentage decreased markedly.
I missed my Shiner Bock beer and Mexican food, I missed the hot, dry Texas fields, and I missed my apartment in Austin, where I had a longhorn skull over the fireplace mantel covered in red, white, and blue leather, with a Lone Star on his forehead.
It was the first Kansas railroad town to receive Texas longhorns which had been driven up the Chisholm Trail.
The relationship was like that of Jersey cattle to longhorns, or cocker spaniels to wolves.
For your average longhorn was as likely to charge a man afoot as it was to flee anyone on a cow pony.
When she had detected him smiling at her as the longhorns forded the Platte, she knew that he would seek her out.
He pondered that as he ate a piece of green-apple pie with a wide slice of longhorn cheese.
There was a longhorn bull in that crowd that must have stood seven feet and would have weighed sixteen hundred pounds.
Mounted on the wall behind the desk were the strategic defensive initiative of a Texas longhorn, as wide as the smile with which Forte favored Traynor.
Michael was checking his Texas Longhorn Border Special, work- ing the fluid action of the 6-round, centerfire .
Tucked into the knotted rope belt was Julio's Texas Longhorn Border Special, the small revolver that fired six rounds of centerfire .