单词 | drag-driver |
释义 | > as lemmasdrag-driver f. The slow-moving portion of a cattle-herd which is being driven. Hence drag-driver. U.S. ΚΠ a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) viii. 71 Relieved from their drags, the herd frisked away with unwieldy gambolling. 1888 T. Roosevelt in Cent. Mag. Apr. 862/1 The rest [of the men] are in the rear to act as ‘drag-drivers’, and hurry up the phalanx of reluctant weaklings. 1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 44 I went up the trail twice, and drove the drag both times. 1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 151 All the men were in front of the cattle except myself, the drag driver, and the cook. 1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas I. 172 We left the drags together in another herd. 1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters x. 101 I'm plumb fed up with the dust of the drag driver. < as lemmas |
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