What is "bullwhacker"

Usage examples of "bullwhacker".

He had ridden into the place, registered and here put up at the Poker, and was just engaged in not tacking up a placard against the wall, as the of the crowd swarmed in, headed by victorious Piute Dave, and his right-hand man, the bullwhacker.

There was a big crowd of the miners and roughs present, however, among whom was Piute Dave, and the bullwhacker poet, Shakespeare.

Now, then, you bullwhacker, procure empty bottle, and stand half-way down the room ' to the right side, and when I give the word toss the bottle up into the air, the neck toward me.

How much could be extorted from her the bullwhacker had no idea, but he had conceived the notion that she would be glad to pay still more handsomely.

One glimpse was all he wanted -- he could then strike the maniac's trail and follow it, no matter where it led -- for not many years before the bullwhacker had been a scout upon the plains, and had acquired great skill in picking and acquired great skill in picking and following trails.

Outside the camp, the bullwhacker poet waited impatiently for the midnight hour to arrive, having decided that it would be his best time to act.

He saw the bullwhacker desert his prize by leaping from the rocks and seeking flight.

Billy had nothing to do while the bullwhackers kept in good health, and no Indians were met with, so became the hunter of the train, keeping it well supplied with fresh meats and wild fowl.

Rudy could see Tirkenson, big, scarred, and ugly, cursing his followers into line with a vocabulary that would have curled a bullwhacker's hair.

Then she saw a leering, bearded face peering at her and she recognized a rough bullwhacker by the name of Bruz Ott.

The yell of the cowboy and the weird oath of the bullwhacker and the mule skinner were heard in the land.

He wore a round hat with a narrow brim and he was among every kind of man, herder and bullwhacker and drover and freighter and miner and hunter and soldier and pedlar and gambler and drifter and drunkard and thief and he was among the dregs of the earth in beggary a thousand years and he was among the scapegrace scions of eastern dynasties and in all that motley assemblage he sat by them and yet alone as if he were some other sort of man entire and he seemed little changed or none in all these years.

Each wagon was pulled by a team of 12 oxen driven by a bullwhacker at an average rate of 15 miles a day.