punch

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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drive (cattle) while on horseback; work as a cowboy (def. 1).

See: cowboy ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1885

It would pay the stockmen to keep men out during the winter to punch the cattle out of the brush in fine weather.

1955

I wrote out a check, on brown wrapping paper, to Little Thomas and his wife for their superb job of punching cows.