Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A cowboy or cowgirl.
Wiktionary
- n. One who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
Examples
“A cowhand is the most overworked and underpaid saphead that ever lost three nights 'sleep hand running and worked seventy-two hours on end; sleep in the rain or not at all -- to hold a job at forty per for six months in the year.”
“Sewall proved unadaptable, for he was rather old to learn new tricks so far removed from the activities that were familiar to him; but Dow became a "cowhand" overnight.”
“The Metropolitan Police are investigating the attack, and have linked it to a recent incident at a dairy farm near Swindon when a cowhand was found attached to his own milking machine.”
“Jerry, my friend the Sensei's response was: Why don't you just stand up and sing, 'I'm an old cowhand, from the Rio Grande...”
The Huffington Post: Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Just Do It Because I Say So
“And I can't sing, "I'm an old cowhand," either, as I'd have the same problem with that, or "The Twelve Days of Christmas": I'd freeze, just as surely, singing an old standard in front of my class as chanting the "Yogena...”
The Huffington Post: Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Just Do It Because I Say So
“Her mother was widely respected and sought after as both a cook and a cowhand, although the approval of her skill on horseback was usually grudgingly given.”
“Every Friday night, she feels him watching her, the man sitting under a Remington copy—one cowhand stroking a campfire, the others sleeping.”
“He worked as a cowhand and a deputy sheriff and served in the army and in the Texas Rangers before joining a Wild West show in 1906.”
“It is based on the story of a fairy from heaven who comes to Earth and marries a cowhand on a farm.”
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“As a young cowhand, he had camped out on nights so cold he could hear porcupines whimpering off in the woods.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘cowhand’.
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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handie
handy compounds
beforehand, hamhanded, freehand, handicraft, handmade, handheld, handfull, handiwork, handsew, handmaid, handpicked, panhandle and 42 more...
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