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bullwhacker

[ bool-hwak-er, -wak- ]

noun

Western U.S.
  1. (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.


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Origin of bullwhacker1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; bull 1 + whacker ( def )
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Kinds of Outfits, Etc. The freighter’s team was composed of from four to six yokes of oxen, sometimes more, driven by one man called a “bullwhacker.â€

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But on the way back Stetson sold it to a St. Louis bullwhacker for $5 in gold, thereupon decided to go into business.

In Arkansas, where he worked as a bullwhacker, he came down with malaria, which he tried to treat with a patent medicine called Orang Utan Liniment and teas brewed from rattlesnake weed.

Her father was a Missouri bullwhacker, a driver of the 16-hitch ox teams that pulled Conestoga wagons over the old Santa Fe trail.

The bullwhacker gave way to the steam engine, the log drive to the railroad; then the steam engine gave way to the tractor, the railroad to the truck.

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