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Here in Southwest Virginia I have heard cold back for what others call green broke. The only time I have heard proud cut is in a Western version of the Child Ballad, Black Jack Davie:

"Way out in old New Mexico

Along the Spanish line...

Go saddle for me the proud cut dunn

With the coal-black mane and tail...

Are these terms used in Australia, Canada or Great Britain? The use of "broke" as a past participle is, I think, archaic, so perhaps green broke goes back a long way.

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  • horsepeople?...
    – Drew
    Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 16:45
  • "Proud-cut" seems fairly common.
    – Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_
    Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 16:47
  • Sorry, US horsemen? Do you mean riders, specifically ones in the West who work with cattle? Cowboys? This are all highly regional and subject-matter specific terms, as well, as probably being from another time. Are you quoting an older cowboy song?
    – Lambie
    Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 17:30
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    @Drew My impression is that the people I'm talking about would not call themselves horsepeople. Consider Horseman Magazine, Eclectic Horseman Magazine, National Horseman (for Saddlebred owners), and Western Horseman (for Western stock horse owners.) For that matter cattlemen don't call themselves cowboys, unless it's midnight.
    – Airymouse
    Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 18:11
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    I ran an ngram horseman, horse people, horse rider for AmE, and "horseman" is way more common.
    – Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_
    Commented Jan 22, 2017 at 0:20

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