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roughrider |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Roughrider \Rough"rid`er\, n. One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Roughrider \Rough"rid`er\, n. An officer or enlisted man in the 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, a regiment raised for the Spanish war of 1898, composed mostly of Western cowboys and hunters and Eastern college athletes and sportsmen, largely organized, and later commanded, by Theodore Roosevelt. Sometimes locally, a member of any of various volunteer cavalry commands raised in 1898. [Colloq.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: roughrider n : a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle
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