Crossword clues for cowpoke
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cowpoke \cowpoke\ n. a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback; -- an informal name for cowboy.
Syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowhand, cowherd.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US slang English) A cowhand (one who tends free-range cattle) 2 (context US dated English) A device used in 19th century, some of which were patented or farm made and used around the neck of cows and other livestock to prevent them from challenging fencing. The action of the device was to poke the cow when the device came in contact with the fence.
WordNet
Usage examples of "cowpoke".
I was taking a pasear into New Mexico with a cowpoke by the name of Glaze Bannack which I'd met in Arizona.
A trio of cowpokes in chaps and battered shor’boots were leading the last half-dozen mounts toward it.
Of all of them in the yard (the cowpokes had also stopped to watch), only Roland’s eyes were sharp enough to follow the flight of the dish.
There might be lots of cowpokes in the Calla who wore round-crowned hats like the one yonder, but Jake had only seen a single guy so far who wore spectacles.
On the plus side, before finally leaving the porch and heading back to the Old Fella’s residence, Eddie reckoned they must have talked to everyone who lived in town and a good number of farmers, ranchers, cowpokes, and hired hands who lived beyond it.
Danny Pogue, however, was launched almost instantly from the sponge hump of his motorized Brahma—a tumble so spectacular that it brought three Company Cowpokes out of the bronco chute at a dead run.
Then he announced to the Cowpokes: "We'd like to file a complaint about this ride.
As they watched Danny Pogue's genuine hobble, the three Cowpokes from Risk Management began to worry that they might have missed something during their quickie medical exam.
On the plus side, before finally leaving the porch and heading back to the Old Fella's residence, Eddie reckoned they must have talked to everyone who lived in town and a good number of farmers, ranchers, cowpokes, and hired hands who lived beyond it.
It just made her mad as a cowpoke wearing bob-wire pants, but not mad enough, of course, to sell her shares of GM and Exxon.
Those others cowpokes were all standing around with their hats off, talking in low voices.
Jilly could fend off the most persistent cowpoke Casanova as fast and forcefully as she could dance Western swing, and her collection of swing-dance trophies filled a display case.