a person who tends to or rears cows.

One who breeds cattle or other animals.

A man who tends, herds, or keeps cows. Now chiefly historical except in sense 2.

A person who rears someone or something (in various senses); (now) esp. an animal breeder. Formerly also with †up.

the keeper of a bull.

A girl or young woman who tends or herds cows. Now historical except in sense 2.

Esp. in the south-western U.S. and Mexico: a person who farms or works on a ranch; the owner of a ranch; a rancher.

The owner or manager of a ranch (esp. in sense 2a); (also) a person employed on a ranch.

The keeper of an estancia; a cattle-farmer (in Spanish America).

The owner or manager of a ranch; (also) a man employed on a ranch.

an owner or rearer of cattle on a large scale.

(a) a man who attends to cows; (b) a cattle-keeper or ‘ranchman’ in the western U.S.