potrero

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish potrero.

Noun

potrero (plural potreros)

  1. A long mesa on the flank of a mountain.
    • 1931, Mary Hunter Austin, Starry Adventure (page 274)
      Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]

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Spanish

Noun

potrero m (plural potreros)

  1. ranch or open range where horses are raised
  2. enclosed pasture that is (overgrazed) common land
  3. long mesa on the flank of a mountain
  4. wrangler (of horses)

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