noun.
A hired man, especially in the western United States, who tends cattle and performs many of his duties on horseback.
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An adventurous hero.
noun.
A reckless person, such as a driver, pilot, or manager, who ignores potential risks.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A boy who takes charge of cows or drives them to and from pasture.
noun.
On the great plains of the western United States, a man employed by a stockman or ranchman in the care of grazing cattle, doing his work on horseback.
noun.
One of a band of marauders during the American revolution, chiefly refugees belonging to the British side, who infested the neutral ground between the British and American lines in the neighborhood of New York, and plundered the whigs or revolutionists.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
noun.
One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.