What is "broodmares"

Usage examples of "broodmares".

And from the few understandable comments she overheard, it seemed that they kept some slaves as broodmares, their only purpose to bear infants that were then kept to be raised in the camp or traded away for goods.

I have to make sure that our reputation for handling top broodmares is good and sound.

You have eight broodmares, the best being Wine-dark, who came third in the Oaks.

By the saints, as dispassionately as he matched his broodmares, her da had locked her in the stables with three hot-blooded studs and gone visiting.

The soldiers were properly impressed when they were taken to the fields to see the broodmares and their foals.