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CATTLEMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cattleman mean?
• CATTLEMAN (noun)
The noun CATTLEMAN has 2 senses:
1. a man who raises (or tends) cattle
2. a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
Familiarity information: CATTLEMAN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who raises (or tends) cattle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("cattleman" is a kind of...):
stock farmer; stock raiser; stockman (farmer who breed or raises livestock)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
cattleman; cowboy; cowhand; cowherd; cowman; cowpoke; cowpuncher; puncher
Hypernyms ("cattleman" is a kind of...):
ranch hand (a hired hand on a ranch)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cattleman"):
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)
Context examples
A poor substitute for food was this hide, just as it had been stripped from the starved horses of the cattlemen six months back.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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