cattlebuyer
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cattlebuyer (plural cattlebuyers)
- Alternative form of cattle-buyer
- 1893, Anson Uriel Hancock, Silhouettes from Life: On the Prairie, in the Backwoods, page 85:
- How happy everybody! neighbor talking with neighbor, merchant with merchant, politician with politician, Baptist with Presbyterian, cattlebuyer with banker, druggist with saloonkeeper—everybody with somebody.
- 1965, The Sage of Petaluma: Autobiography of a Teacher, page 184:
- His father had been a roving cattlebuyer in Idaho, Montana, and the Dakotas who packed his family around with him and named his children after their birthplaces.
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 19:
- The man nodded at the satchel with its straps and brass catches. I said are you a cattlebuyer.