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cowpoke
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cowpoke has 1 sense
- cowpoke(n = noun.person) cattleman, cowboy, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpuncher, puncher - a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback; Array has particulars: buckaroo, buckeroo, vaquero, cowgirl, gaucho, horse wrangler, wrangler, roper
is a kind of ranch hand
CIDE DICTIONARY
cowpoke, n.
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback; -- an informal name for cowboy . [WordNet 1.5]
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