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potrero
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n. long mesa on the flank of a mountain
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A potrero is a long mesa that at one end slopes upward to higher terrain. This landform commonly occurs on the flanks of a mountain, as part of a dissected plateau.
A loan word from Spanish language, potrero is in current use in the southwestern United States, where it is sometimes translated as "tongue of land" and "enclosed piece of pasture land". In Spanish language, however, the "tongue of land" sense is archaic.
Also archaic is the related sense of potrero referring to someone who wrangles young horses (potros in Spanish) kept as breeding stock (not saddle or pack stock). In Spanish, the usual sense of potrero now refers to any land (such as a ranch, open range, or community pasture) where such horses are kept.
Notable examples of potreros include some of the many mesas of the Pajarito Plateau near Santa Fe, New Mexico ( United States). Historically, these potreros were used as winter pasture for livestock (horses, sheep, and cattle) that were driven to and from lush summer pastures in the high grass valleys (valles) of the Valles Caldera. Today, these potreros are used in this manner by a large herd of elk. These potreros are natural enclosures, with only one principal exit: the narrow connection to higher land.
In Spain a potrero is common land in poor condition.
Usage examples of "potrero".
They went to work on the green colts daybreak Sunday morning, dressing in the half dark in clothes still wet from their washing them the night before and walking out to the potrero before the stars were down, eating a cold tortilla wrapped around a scoop of cold beans and no coffee and carrying their fortyfoot maguey catchropes coiled over their shoulders.
Then he led it through the gate out of the potrero and into the corral where the horses would be ridden.
Someone had built a fire on the ground outside the potrero and there were something like a hundred people gathered, some come from the pueblo of La Vega six miles to the south, some from farther.
When they were done the horses stood in the potrero or stepped about trailing their hackamore ropes over the ground with such circumspection not to tread upon them and snatch down their sore noses that they moved with an air of great elegance and seemliness.
The wild and frantic band of mustangs that had circled the potrero that morning like marbles swirled in a jar could hardly be said to exist and the animals whinnied to one another in the dark and answered back as if some one among their number were missing, or some thing.
But before I got there, I turned east, toward the Potrero Annex housing project, where Bobby Foster had grown up.
Missouri curved and took a sharp downward slope, and I found myself looking at a whole other Potrero Hill.
Then I remembered Jay Larkey mentioning that he offered his employees a full medical and dental package at the Potrero Clinic.
Beyond Townsend Street there was an entrance to the 280 freeway, the quickest way to Potrero Hill.
Or I could let you look down into Potrero Canyon, an eroded earthquake crack which cuts through populous Pacific Palisades, another postal address in Los Angeles.
I lived on Potrero Hill, in a renovated blue Michaelian town house with a view of the bay Not the fancy view like the one from the Mandarin Suite.
He pulled into morning commute traffic with a deft touch on the wheel and turned the van from Potrero Hill toward the Richmond district.
Nicholas took the Mariposa Street off-ramp into San Francisco and drove toward Potrero Hill.
Elks Hall in Potrero Heights when differences on the morality of mercy killing erupted into a melee among the activists.
The dispatcher was sending squad cars to Potrero Hill for a domestic disturbance.