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Re: [RC] "Hack" - Linda Marins

To really answer you, I'd have to subscribe to the Oxford English
Dictionary.

However, as a few additional data points:  in New England you will
find classes at horse shows for "Bridle Path Hack" and "Road Hack."
(Road Hack is my all-time favorite Morgan class!)  So, it is not just
a verb, it is also a noun:  the horse you'd ride on a bridle path (fancier
than a plain pleasure horse); the horse you'd ride on a road when you're
interested in getting somewhere pdq.  By extension, it also got to mean
an overused, soured livery stable horse, as in "That horse is just a
hack."

Linda Marins







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