cowhand
noun
a person employed on a cattle ranch; cowboy or cowgirl.
cowhands
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pluralof cowhand.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He did hilarious impressions of people like his cousin Fagin Springer, a singing evangelist from Virginia, and the tough old cowhands on his uncle’s Montana ranch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
Houston is also home to the rodeo, the country’s oldest Black trail ride, and Black cowboy culture — in 1800s Texas, one in four cowhands were Black.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
From time to time, diverting visitors wander into Faye’s campsite — friendly neighbors with a dinner invitation, Indigenous cowhands with an unusual request — their whimsical intrusions adding flavor to an unyieldingly spare story.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
Out of the eight cowhands assembled near the chuckwagon fire, only four have the pleasure of doing it full time.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2017
For the next ten months, Shin stayed where the pig farmer had left him, tending cattle in mountain pastures and sleeping on a ranch-house floor with two surly Chinese cowhands.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
