line rider

West, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a horseman patrolling the Canada-U.S. border to head off whisky-traders, rustlers, and other undesirables.

Quotations

1910

The "line riders," whether Mounted Policemen or special men engaged by stock-owners for this service, have plenty to do in frustrating their-wiles.