Cayuses

Variant of Cayuse

noun pl. Cayuses or Cayuse

  1. a member of a group of North American Indians that lived in the Blue Mountains section of NE Oreg.
  2. the language of this people
  3. a horse, esp. a small Western horse used by cowboys

Origin: < tribal name

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