cow-huntn.
U.S.
A search for strayed cattle.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > hunting strayed cattle
cow-hunt1853
1853 ‘P. Paxton’ Stray Yankee in Texas 108 Everything in the shape of a man..had left the settlement, and engaged in a general ‘cow-hunt’.
1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 104 Soon the settlers began to organize cow hunts.
1929 J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country 13 When we gathered cattle, we said that we were on a ‘cow hunt’, a ‘cow work’, a ‘work’, or a ‘cow drive’.
Derivatives
cow-hunt v. intransitive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > keep cattle [verb (intransitive)] > hunt strayed cattle
cow-hunt1920
1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 175 Those old time ranchmen were content to simply cow hunt twice a year and brand their calves.
cow-hunter n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > hunting strayed cattle > person
cow-hunter1863
1863 Harper's Mag. Mar. 536/1 It had the reputation of being the resort of fugitives and cow-hunters.
1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 175 I remember the many times that cowhunters rode up to my father's house.
cow-hunting adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [adjective] > stray cattle > hunting strayed cattle
cow-hunting1898
1898 H. S. Canfield Maid of Frontier 132 The ordinary immense Texas affair, intended only for cow-hunting males.
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