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mule-skinner†

Esp. West, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a mule-team driver.

See: catskinner,skinner(def. 1)

Quotations

1889

There are four different occupations in the country the men engage in, which are called bull-whackers and mule-skinners, applied to freighters who drive oxen or mules, broncho-busters and cow-punchers.

1962

I'd the repertoire of a mule-skinner, developed behind a wide variety of knotheaded horses.