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  • Another peculiarity in the training of Mexican horses is, that many of them are taught to "rayar," that is, to put their fore-feet out after the manner of mules going down a pass; and slide a short distance along the ground, so as to stop suddenly in the midst of a rapid gallop.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

  • Los raspadores, raederas burdas y lascas utilizadas para cortar o rayar son los implementos que predominan hasta ahora.

    Las cosas avanzan r��pidamente « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site 2009

  • Guests naveed kamar saab dr zubir khan saab abdul rayar saab m ajaz saab Tata Consultancy Services has announced a partnership with Saab for the establishment of Saab's aeronautical design ...

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  • "alba" in spanish stands for the break of day, "al rayar el alba", and albo is "white" used in a poetical context.

    languagehat.com: ELVER AND ALBUM. 2005

  • Having no business to do, the counting-house would probably take stock, and balance the books; but when this is finished there is little to be done but to practice pistol-shooting and hold tournaments in the court-yard, and to teach the horses to rayar; while the head of the house sits moodily smoking in his arm-chair, reckoning up how many of his debtors would be ruined, and wondering whether the loaded mules with his goods had got into shelter, or had been seized by one party or the other.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

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