horse trader

Historical Examples

• A horse-trader offered him seventy-five dollars for the animal.

  The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4

  Various

• "I ain't no way shore about that," said the horse-trader easily.

  The Quickening

  Francis Lynde

• He looks to me like a Yankee horse-trader, who is too intimate with the devil and his ways to be at all alarmed about them.

  The Crime of the French Caf and Other Stories

  Nicholas Carter

• The preceding incident leads to another, in which Lincoln himself figures as a horse-trader.

  The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

  Francis Fisher Browne

• What had the horse-trader been saying to make it needful for Bill Layne to speak up as his mother's defender?

  The Quickening

  Francis Lynde