quarter horse

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   a small powerful horse originally bred for sprinting in quarter-mile races in Virginia

   Broadersaddle horse

Questions about quarter horse

What does quarter horse mean?

quarter horse means "a small powerful horse originally bred for sprinting in quarter-mile races in Virginia".

Is quarter horse a common word?

quarter horse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.