ranch hand

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— West

a person employed on a ranch, especially a cattle ranch.

Quotations

1951

. . . a minister to the spiritual needs of the husky ranch-hands in Alberta's godless foothills.

1953

Over the next decade twenty-five ranch hands worked there at once.