Meaning & use
Quirts
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Short-handled riding whips with a braided leather lash, traditionally used by cowboys to urge on a horse.
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The ranch hands kept their quirts looped over the saddle horn.
He cracked one of the quirts to hurry the cattle along.
A note on using this word
The word comes from the Spanish "cuarta," reflecting the tool's origins in Mexican and Spanish colonial horsemanship traditions of the American West.
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riding whipscrops
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