bullwhacker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bullwhacker
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; bull 1 + whacker ( def. )
Example Sentences
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But on the way back Stetson sold it to a St. Louis bullwhacker for $5 in gold, thereupon decided to go into business.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bullwhacker gave way to the steam engine, the log drive to the railroad; then the steam engine gave way to the tractor, the railroad to the truck.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her father was a Missouri bullwhacker, a driver of the 16-hitch ox teams that pulled Conestoga wagons over the old Santa Fe trail.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Arkansas, where he worked as a bullwhacker, he came down with malaria, which he tried to treat with a patent medicine called Orang Utan Liniment and teas brewed from rattlesnake weed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wagon train pulled out of Leavenworth, all heavily freighted, each one carrying about six thousand pounds weight, and each also drawn by four yoke of oxen under charge of a driver, or "bullwhacker."
From Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood by Ingraham, Prentiss
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