crow-bait

“Rosinante reincarnate, a gigantic "crow-bait" with a head as long and coarse as an eighteen-hand mule's, an under lip pendulous as a camel's dropping ears nearly long enough to brush flies off his nostrils, with such an ingrowing concavity of under jaw and convexity of face as would have enabled his head to supply the third of a nine-foot circle, a face curved as a scimitar and nearly as sharp.”

The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier

“Let me set out in the open once, with a good horse under me instead of a specimen of crow-bait, and I'll open your eyes!”

The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis

“We were some relieved to find the family all right, but Texas Pete had bored one of them poor old crow-bait hosses plumb through the head.”

Arizona Nights

“Come on, crow-bait!" yelled Brann, insultingly, as he came down past the doctor, and seemed about to pass Albert and Maud.”

Other Main-Travelled Roads

“Mounting my crow-bait, I struck out in a westerly direction to look for the stock.”

Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains

“But say, I won't be in the store more than a second, and it doesn't seem worth while to tie the old crow-bait.”

The Daughter of Anderson Crow

“I haven't seen a crow-bait since I've been in town. ”

The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million