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Puncher

noun
1.
A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback.  Synonyms: cattleman, cowboy, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncher.
2.
Someone who delivers punches.
3.
A tool for making holes or indentations.  Synonym: punch.





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"Puncher" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bud Moore, ex-cow-puncher and now owner of an auto stage that did not run in the winter, was touched with cabin fever and did not know what ailed him. His stage line ran from San Jose up through Los Gatos and over the Bear Creek road across the summit of the Santa ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower
... it?' ''Cos,' I answers quick, 'ther' ain't a job on this countryside fer 'em after Julian Marbolt's done with 'em.' That's why. 'Wher' wus you workin' around before?' asks a foreman. 'Skitter Bend,' says the puncher. 'Ain't got nothin' fer you,' says the foreman quick; 'guess this ain't no butcherin' bizness!' An' that's jest how it is right thro' with Skitter Bend," Shaky finished up, drenching the spittoon against the bar ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... men two minutes to clear out of here," he said. "No two-gunned cow-puncher can throw any bluff round here, if that's what you're ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn
... had a circus with her, but he busted her right enough. When it comes to horse, Delaney can wipe the eye of any cow-puncher in ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris
... living to stop him. He has found some of that queer sort of religion what he called anonymous down there to that Inn, and if he'd have taken water the other night he'd have lost every one of them boys. He fought that puncher because he was after the gang behind him. If things had gone against him, I'd have pitched in and helped him trounce the hull enduring lot, and I'd have felt mighty religious while I was ...
— Captain Pott's Minister • Francis L. Cooper


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