catskinner

[kat-skin-er]

noun

Informal.

1. an operator of a vehicle or machine with caterpillar treads.

Word History and Origins

Origin of catskinner¹

Cat + (mule) skinner

Example Sentences

But others were innocent arrivals who had bought their hippie homesteads from a well-known local character: the local miner and catskinner Gordon Burdick, a pot-smoking Iwo Jima vet and one-time basketball player for Seattle Pacific College.

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The resort reports an 84-inch base measured at the Catskinner Weather Station situated at 5,085 feet mid-mountain on Blackcomb Mountain.

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