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Gotcho. (Mexican.) A droop-eared or lop-eared horse. 



Grub. To cut the ear off close to the head for an ear-mark. 



Grullo (Grew-yo). (Spanish or Mexican.) A dull slate or 

 smoke-colored horse; a "smoky." 



Hackamore. (Jaquima). A headstall used in breaking saddle 

 horses. A Spanish word taken from the Arabian. 



Heifer. A female of the bovine species before she has dropped 

 her first calf. After that she becomes a cow. 



Illnny. The offspring of a stallion and a jenny or female ass. 



Hogging Rope. Short piece of rope for use in hog-tying an ani- 

 mal. 



Hogr Tie. To tie an animal down by all four feet. 



Hoodlum Wagon. The extra wagon taken with the chuck wagon 

 on the roundup to haul grain, extra bedding, and at times 

 wood and water. 



l Bunch. On a sheep range those animals that are sick, 

 injured in some way, or ewes with lambs which are not 

 thrifty and therefore need more care than they get in 

 the large herd. 



Jack. A male of the ass species. 



Jennet. (Genet.) A small Spanish horse in range language. 



Jenny. A female of the ass species. 



Jingle Bob. An ear-mark made by cutting the ear on the upper 

 side, so as to break the back of the ear. This allows It 

 to hang down along the side of the face much as do the 

 long ears of the Angora goat. 



Jug Handle. A mark made in cattle by slitting the dew lap 

 about 4 inches so that the outside strip hangs free from 

 the animal. 



Lasso. (Spanish.) To snare; to rope; rope used by stockmen 

 to catch cattle. 



Legging Out. The act of pulling sheep out of a bunch by the 

 hind legs, catching them either with the hand or the crook. 



Lepple. A southwestern name for dogie. Taken from the Spanish. 



Loafer. Western corruption of the Spanish Lobo; a wolf. 



Mare. A female of the horse species over two and one half years 

 of age. 



Markers. The black sheep in a herd. Every herder knows exact- 

 ly how many of such he has and by running over them 

 occasionally he feels fairly sure that if they are all there 

 he has lost no sheep. 



Maverick. An unbranded calf or colt not following the mother. 

 The name goes back to early days in Texas when a man 

 named Maverick ran cattle on a small island, and hence 

 neither branded nor marked them. Occasionally one or two 

 would swim to the mainland and- when found in the herds 

 were known as maverick cattle, and soon the name was 

 adopted for all such animals. 



Mecate. (Me-cah-tee). A hair rope used as a tie rope for horses; 

 often called "Macarty," used with hackamore rig. In Mex- 

 ico, a maguey rope. 



Milling. A herd of stock held under guard where the animals 

 keep walking round and round in one direction. 



Morphodite, Hermaphrodite. An animal having the generative 

 parts of both sexes. This name goes back to the old 

 Greek story of the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who, while 

 bathing one day, became united in one body with a water 

 nymph. 



