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    COWHAND

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horsebackplay

    Synonyms:

    cattleman; cowboy; cowhand; cowherd; cowman; cowpoke; cowpuncher; puncher

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("cowhand" is a kind of...):

    ranch hand (a hired hand on a ranch)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cowhand"):

    buckaroo; buckeroo; vaquero (local names for a cowboy ('vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and 'buckaroo' is used especially in California))

    cowgirl (a woman cowboy)

    gaucho (a cowboy of the South American pampas)

    horse wrangler; wrangler (a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses)

    roper (a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses)

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