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cowhand

[ kou-hand ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Origin of cowhand¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; cow ¹ + hand

You go to a ranch and get a job as a cowhand and rope a calf the way they do at the rodeo, and they’ll throw you out in a minute.

He gave up drinking thereafter and went to work for the "Three Seven" outfit as an ordinary cowhand.

Yuh sure it wasn't that cowhand called Yuma that put yuh up tuh findin' out what my intentions was regardin' Mort?

Harry Collins, advertising copywriter, had become Harry Sanders, working cowhand.

Presently the dark-faced cowhand appeared in the gathering dawn.

Well, what do you think of your first experience as a cowhand?

April 18, 2024petrichor

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