cattle-buyer

See also: cattlebuyer

English

Alternative forms

• cattlebuyer

Noun

cattle-buyer (plural cattle-buyers)

1. One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers.
   • 2009, Annie Proulx, Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog:

     It was not Johnny's fees but the drummers passing through with their lines of dry goods and notions, it was the occasional cattle-buyer who stopped for the night and took a meal—it was they who paid the bills.