Brumby - What does it mean?
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(Australia) A wild or feral horse.
* 1967 , December 22, ,
* 1976 , Tom Lee McKnight, Friendly Vermin: A Survey of Feral Livestock in Australia ,
* 1988 , Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked ,
brumby
English
Noun
(brumbies)page 69,
- He captures brumbies , the wild horses of the outback, running them down on motorcycles and shipping them to the city where they are butchered for pet food.
page 17,
- If the latter situation prevails, brumbies can be developed into valuable stockhorses, either for use on the local property or for sale in other areas.
- Whatever the condition of a captured brumby , there is always the potential of selling it for pet food, fish bait, or even for human consumption.
- Harry Farquharson said there were two or three springs and that the horses were “bloody wild”. He said there were probably about 300 and they were good horses, a long way above the average brumby .