trailhand
nounEtymology From trail + hand.
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US A cowboy or skilled horseman who routinely rides through the rural countryside.
- I've gone horseback riding many times since I was a little girl, and my 9-year-old daughter Emily considered herself an old trailhand.2003 July 6, Sara Campbell, “When a horseback ride turns into horror on the hoof”, in The Dallas Morning News:
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US In the Old West, a mounted worker employed on a cattle drive.