green-broke

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English

Adjective

green-broke (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of greenbroke
    • 2012, Barbara Ankrum, This Perfect Stranger:
      But Geronimo, a green-broke three-year old gelding, was too frightened to be caught.
    • 2014, Maggie Osborne, The Best Man:
      He didn't want them up on green-broke mounts.
    • 2014, Miles Swarthout, The Last Shootist:
      “Those fou' horses are green-broke now, so I need to drive 'em down to the Ba' Cross for the boys to use as replacements and get 'em cattle-trained before fall roundup.