Definitions
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- noun US A
cowboy orskilled horseman who routinely rides through therural countryside . - noun US In the Old West, a mounted worker employed on a
cattle drive .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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.. 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
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.. 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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