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Roughrider

Roughrider \Rough"rid`er\, n.

  1. One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master.

  2. An officer or enlisted man in the 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, a regiment raised for the Spanish war of 1898, composed mostly of Western cowboys and hunters and Eastern college athletes and sportsmen, largely organized, and later commanded, by Theodore Roosevelt. Sometimes, locally, a member of any of various volunteer cavalry commands raised in 1898. [Colloq.]

Wiktionary
roughrider

n. 1 A horsebreaker. 2 (context military dated English) A noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry whose duty is to assist the riding master.

WordNet
roughrider

n. a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle

Usage examples of "roughrider".

Teddy Roosevelt, the old Roughrider himself and twenty-sixth president of the United States, had spent time at the lodge on one of his so-called working vacations.

Operation Roughrider nabs on drug and weapons charges on May 2 that year.

Behind her, farther back in the room, the roughrider caught a glimpse of a fat, gross, ashen-faced man fleeing toward the inner door of a bedroom to escape being seen.

American roughrider where his calling on her would be anything but painful.