cattlebuyer

See also: cattle-buyer

English

Noun

cattlebuyer (plural cattlebuyers)

  1. Alternative form of cattle-buyer
    • 1893, Anson Uriel Hancock, Silhouettes from Life: On the Prairie, in the Backwoods, page 85:
      How happy everybody! neighbor talking with neighbor, merchant with merchant, politician with politician, Baptist with Presbyterian, cattlebuyer with banker, druggist with saloonkeeper—everybody with somebody.
    • 1965, The Sage of Petaluma: Autobiography of a Teacher, page 184:
      His father had been a roving cattlebuyer in Idaho, Montana, and the Dakotas who packed his family around with him and named his children after their birthplaces.
    • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 19:
      The man nodded at the satchel with its straps and brass catches. I said are you a cattlebuyer.
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