DCHP-3

whacker

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

the driver of a bull train of oxen.

See: bullwhacker(def. 1)

Quotations

1954
The perverse obstinacy of the cattle, however, was a trial to the whackers. . . .
1962
Soon the settlers were joined by a young man, Lincoln Bastedo, who had been a whacker on the bull train express that plied between Winnipeg and Edmonton.