oat-burner

Definitions

1. 1

   A horse.

   • He's not just your basic oat-burner who runs because he's taught to.
   • “I'd like to see his face when Taral puts the collar on that oat-burner in the stretch,” he says. “That boy can make a horse run backwards.”
   • We'll never make hundreds of miles on this oat-burner. He'll still be close enough to his own farm that someone will recognize him eventually.
2. 2

   A film, radio or television show, or theatrical production set in the Old West

   A film, radio or television show, or theatrical production set in the Old West; horse opera.

   • Here are the two lead sentences in the liner notes for a recently released western, an oat-burner just out on video called Covenant Rider.
   • In this oat-burner, the hero, played by Buck Jones, is supposedly a full-blooded Bannock pony express rider who falls head over heels for a white woman.

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