remuda

Borrowed from Spanish remuda.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈmuːdə/

remuda (plural remudas)

1. (Canada, US) A herd of horses from which the horses to be used for a particular purpose are selected. [from 19th c.]
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 157:

     ‘Don’t die!’ You can bet your Red River remuda on that.

   • 2003, Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla:

     To one side of the barn was a remuda of work-horses, perhaps twenty in all.

   • 2004, B. M. Bower, Cow-Country:

     Buddy did not know what his mother was going to do, but he was sure that whatever she did would be right; so he hoisted his saddle on the handiest fresh horse, and loped off to drive in the remuda, feeling certain that his father would move swiftly to save his cattle that ranged back in the foothills, and that the saddle horses would be wanted at a moment's notice.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 29:

     A big remuda had been driven up, Cayuse ponies mixed with larger American horses.

• IPA^(key): /reˈmuda/ [reˈmu.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -uda
• Syllabification: re‧mu‧da

Deverbal from remudar (“to exchange”).

remuda f (plural remudas)

1. an exchange; replacement, alteration

remuda

1. inflection of remudar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “remuda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025