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Puncher

noun

A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback. Synonyms: cattleman, cowboy, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncher.

Someone who delivers punches.

A tool for making holes or indentations. Synonym: punch.

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"Puncher" Quotes from Famous Books

... breathe! Yu acts like yu never saw a real puncher afore. All th' same," he remarked, nodding at several of the crowd, "I've seen yu afore. Yu are th' gents with th' hot-foot get-a-way that vamoosed ...

— Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up - Bar-20 • Clarence Edward Mulford

... cartoonists seized on and exaggerated so that most people who have not seen the man picture Bryan, not as a determined looking man with a piercing eye and tightset mouth, but as a grotesque frock-coated figure with the sombrero of a cow-puncher and the hair of a poet. If the delegates at the convention noticed any of these peculiarities as Bryan arose to speak, they soon forgot them. His undoubted power to carry an audience with him was never better ...

— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck

... pretty good mimic. She had Ward doubled over the horn again and shouting so that the canyon walls roared echoes for three full minutes. "I've always wanted to hear the Chisholm Trail. I know how it was sung from Mexico north on the old cattle-trails, and how every ambitious puncher who had enough imagination and could make a rhyme, added a verse or so, till it's really a—a ...

— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower

... days Elizabeth had been in town on her cattle- buying trip, she had never see him alter his position. But she was accustomed to the West, and this advent of sleep in the town did not satisfy her. A drowsy town, like a drowsy-looking cow-puncher, might be ...

— Black Jack • Max Brand

... young person is Johnny and a cow-puncher of parts. Most of the canyon guides are cow-punchers—accomplished ones, too, and of high standing in the profession. With a touch of reverence Johnny pointed out to us Sam Scovel, the greatest bronco buster of his time, now ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various

... she can cut a critter From the herd as neat as pie, Read a brand out on the ranges Just as well as you or I. Ain't much yet with the riata, But you give her a few years And no puncher with the outfit Will beat her ...

— Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp • Various

... been a cow puncher instead of a contractor," she told him, "I'm sure you would long ago have ended your life in some dash ...

— Dennison Grant - A Novel of To-day • Robert Stead

Words linked to "Puncher" : buckeroo, punch, roper, wrangler, center punch, pugilist, buckaroo, tool, ranch hand, vaquero, punch pliers, horse wrangler, gaucho, cowboy, boxer, cowpuncher, cattleman, cowgirl