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That comes out to about 800 horses who die each year in North America, running on courses where the dirt is sometimes hard and packed tight because it makes for more speed, and also more danger.
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- noun Earth or soil.
- noun A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
- noun Excrement.
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- In the dirt is a shining spot of gold, and I kneel down to see. — Fight Club
- The little spot of gold in the dirt is a molar with a gold filling. — Fight Club
- Perhaps the dirt is partly the result of the fall, although it hardly looks like it. — When Last I Died
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That comes out to about 800 horses who die each year in North America, running on courses where the dirt is sometimes hard and packed tight because it makes for more speed, and also more danger.
— Gone Like the Wind - My room in the so called hotel stunk, the dirt was all over the floor and the servants had to be paid to do everything even to bring you a towel -- and then I had no place to write or be alone, and nothing to eat -- The poor souls at my table who had been in the siege, when they got a little bit of sugar or a can of condensed milk would carry it off from the table as though it were a diamond diadem -- I did the same thing myself for I couldn't eat what they gave me and so I corrupted the canteen dealer and bought tin things -- — Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
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- Middle English, variant of drit, excrement, filth, mud, from Old Norse.
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