Definitions

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  • noun US A cowboy or skilled horseman who routinely rides through the rural countryside.
  • noun US In the Old West, a mounted worker employed on a cattle drive.

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Examples

  • Over by the bar a good-looking boy in the dusty clothes of a trailhand just in from Virginia City and his oxlike older brother had gotten into a vociferous argument over a girl with a dark-haired gambler, their voices rising higher and higher over Ishmael's quiet instructions to Jason.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • Over by the bar a good-looking boy in the dusty clothes of a trailhand just in from Virginia City and his oxlike older brother had gotten into a vociferous argument over a girl with a dark-haired gambler, their voices rising higher and higher over Ishmael's quiet instructions to Jason.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • Gripping Gold Rush saga stars Marilyn Monroe as a saloon singer searching for her runaway husband with the aid of widowed trailhand Robert Mitchum.

    unknown title 2009

  • .. he tries so hard to represent himself as just a simple trailhand even to himself when there's so much more bubbling away beneath the surface.

    advance reviews are in Holly 2005

  • .. he tries so hard to represent himself as just a simple trailhand even to himself when there's so much more bubbling away beneath the surface.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Holly 2005

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