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Catchword for “wet horse”
Catchword: wet horse
Part of Speechn.
Quotation: Wet horse. Stolen horse. (From the fact that raiders ran the herds of stolen horses across the Rio Grande River.)
Article or Document Title:
“Cow Punchers’ Slang and Jargon”
Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Lexicon of Trade Jargon
Dateline:
Utah, Texas, Ore., S.D., Colo., Ariz., Mont.
Date of Publication:
1938-39
(This date is uncertain. It is either not given, unclear, or unreliable in the original source.)
Page Number:
20
This catchword has yet to be researched.
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