trailhand
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See also: trail hand
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]trailhand (plural trailhands)
- (US) A cowboy or skilled horseman who routinely rides through the rural countryside.
- 2003 July 6, Sara Campbell, “When a horseback ride turns into horror on the hoof”, in The Dallas Morning News:
- 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.
- (US) In the Old West, a mounted worker employed on a cattle drive.