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Definition of Gentling
1. gentle [v] - See also: gentle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentling
Literary usage of Gentling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plantation Songs: And Other Verse by Ruth McEnery Stuart (1916)
"... gentling YEARS ALL my days I will go softly, softly down the homeward slope,
Crimson certitudes of childhood tempered now to amber hope Shining through ..."
2. Tachyhippodamia: Or, The New Secret of Taming Horses by John Solomon Rarey, Willis J. Powell (1872)
"ADVICE TO FARMERS, CONCERNING THE gentling OF YOUNG COWS. Though I did not intend
to say any thing about horned cattle, it may not, perhaps, ..."
3. The Training and Breaking of Horses by Merritt Wesley Harper (1918)
"289 Appliances to prevent cribbing 300 gentling front foot with rope 301 gentling
front foot with leg-strap 302 First position in gentling hind foot 304 ..."
4. Effective Farming: A Text-book for American Schools by Harry Oscar Sampson (1918)
"gentling the colt. — While tied the colt should be petted and rubbed on the ...
This operation is termed gentling. Hold the head-stall in one hand and with ..."
5. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1847)
"We have sometimes, it is true, heard it remarked, that this process of early
breaking and gentling steers was foolish and injurious—calculated to retard ..."
6. Illustrated Horse-breaking by Matthew Horace Hayes (1908)
"The term " gentling the horse" signifies the act of handling him in a soothing,
... gentling is therefore a valuable means for making horses docile, ..."
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