brumby

/ˈbɹʌmbi/

Etymology

From Old Norse brunnr (“water well”)+býr (“farmstead, village”).

name

A former village in Brumby and Frodingham district, Frodingham parish, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
A locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
A habitational surname from Old Norse.

noun

A wild or feral horse.“I'm too weak to ride. I'd have to ride, because for one thing the white-ants have eaten the wheels of my buckboard, and my one cart-horse has gone bush with the brumbies.”