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Meanings of puncher in English

Portuguese
cowboy
Catalan
vaquer

A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback.

      cowboy
      Spanish
      perforadora

      A tool for making holes or indentations.

            perforadora
            Usage of puncher in English
            1
            The lariats were thrown off as the puncher swung to the saddle.
            Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West
            2
            She was beginning on a nut sundae when the puncher drifted in.
            Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West
            3
            The big lean cow-puncher stopped with an oath as the riders disappeared.
            Mavericks
            4
            The cow-puncher had taken out a pipe, and was slowly rubbing it.
            The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
            5
            Kitty knew just a little more of human nature than the puncher.
            The Big-Town Round-Up
            6
            The puncher felt homesick for the security of an outlaw bronco's back.
            The Big-Town Round-Up
            7
            He's the goods-bestof company, a straight-uprider, and a first-ratepuncher.
            A Texas Ranger
            8
            Have you got a real puncher amongst that outfit of long-haired hayseeds?
            The Phantom Herd
            9
            Sean has spiky hair and the hard gaze of a veteran puncher.
            The new yorker
            10
            They wouldn't have no use for a puncher, I reckon, Slim drawled.
            The Big-Town Round-Up
            11
            As for that, Jim Reid ain't much more than a cow-puncher himself.
            When A Man's A Man
            12
            Who but old Hank Coombs, the veteran cow puncher of the Southwest!
            The Saddle Boys of the Rockies; Or, Lost on Thunder Mountain
            13
            Had she surrendered on this day to her cow-puncher, her wild man?
            The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
            14
            The puncher saw his left eyelid droop in a wink to the conductor.
            Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
            15
            His strong fingers closed on the throat of the bow-legged puncher.
            The Big-Town Round-Up
            16
            He joked the puncher and made Kitty feel at home by teasing her.
            The Big-Town Round-Up
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            Translations for puncher
            Catalan
            vaquer
            Puncher through the time
            Puncher across language varieties
            United Kingdom
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