cowpunchingn.
/ˈkaʊˌpʌn(t)ʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkaʊˌpən(t)ʃɪŋ/ North American colloquial.
The action or practice of working as a cowboy; the job, skills, etc., of a cowboy.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > herding of cattle
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bull-punching1872
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1951 Pop. Photogr. May 194/2 A word and picture story of cowpunching as it's done in the old western tradition on one of today's large Texas ranches.
1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways (1991) v. ii. 174 With the white man giving up on the economics of cowpunching, it looked as if the old categories of cowboys and Indians had merged.
2014 Toronto Star (Nexis) 15 Feb. e2 Displays of rope-twirling, cow-punching and associated western pursuits.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
cowpunchingadj.
/ˈkaʊˌpʌn(t)ʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkaʊˌpən(t)ʃɪŋ/ North American colloquial.
Of, relating to, or characterized by the herding of cattle by cowboys; associated with or characteristic of cowboys or cattle-ranching culture; (of a person) that works as a cowboy.
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1903 N.Y. Times Sat. Rev. 26 Sept. 652/1 The stories..are..concerned with the gun-firing, cow-punching West of the plains.
1994 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 24 Nov. (Final ed.) b3 ‘Sort of a John Wayne bounce.’ Vreeland demonstrates.., tottering along with a bowlegged stride that does indeed resemble the cow-punching warhorse.
2007 Associated Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 17 Dec. He finally borrowed a skill from his cow-punching days and threw a loop over the eagle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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cow-punching
cow-punching n. and adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > herding of cattle
sookie1838
bull-punching1872
cow-punching1884
night-herd1884
night-herding1888
cattle-punching1907
cowpunching1951
1884 W. Shepherd Prairie Experiences 35 Each boy, when out cow-punching, rides from six to ten horses, using them in turns.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Mar. 6/1 A Wyoming rancheman, who has..spent four seasons big-game shooting and ‘cow-punching’ in that Territory.
1903 N.Y. Times Sat. Rev. 26 Sept. 652 The stories are concerned with the gun-firing, cow-punching West of the plains.
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