Definition of Trail boss

1. Noun. The person responsible for driving a herd of cattle.

Generic synonyms: Supervisor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trail Boss

tragules
tragus
tragœdy
trahison
trahison des clercs
trahisons
trahisons des clercs
traif
traik
traiked
traiking
traikit
traiks
trail bike
trail boss (current term)
trail hand
trail head
trail making test
trail mix
trail mixes
trail riding
trailbaston
trailblazer
trailblazers
trailblazing
trailbreaker
trailbreakers
trailed
trailer

Literary usage of Trail boss

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of Cowboys by Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1921)
"The trail boss shook his head. "It takes less men to handle one herd o' three ... They were evidently on the war-path, but, as the trail boss explained ..."

2. Diagnostic et séméologie des maladies tropicales by Hermann Toenjes, Andy Adams, R. Wurtz, A. Thiroux, Herbert Myrick (1905)
"The cattle were being drifted east by the deputies and several of our boys, the trail boss having called off his men on an agreement of the count. ..."

3. Johnny Nelson: How a One-time Pupil of Hopalong Cassidy of the Famous Bar-20 by Clarence Edward Mulford (1920)
"McCullough, one of his men, and the two foremen stopped before the point, the trail boss and Huff on one side, the others not far away and facing them. ..."

4. Building A Shared Vision For Environmental Education: A Conference Sponsored (1992)
"The mission of trail boss is to teach volunteer leaders specialized skills for ... An Interagency Agreement on the trail boss program was signed and an ..."

5. A Ranchman's Recollections: An Autobiography in which Unfamiliar Facts by Frank S. Hastings (1921)
"Two books written by Andy Adams, an old trail boss, furnish in fascinating detail all the incidents of a dozen trails crowded into a composite story of one ..."

6. The Cowboy: His Characteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in the by Philip Ashton Rollins (1922)
"The men accompanying the beasts were in number such as, for a large herd, allowed—not counting the foreman (usually termed "trail boss"), his assistant ..."

7. American Adventures: A Second Trip "abroad at Home" by Julian Street (1917)
"Heah 's fiffy dollahs.''' "Well," one of us asked presently, "what happened?" "Ah took 'em ridin' through de jungle trail, boss," he returned, innocently. ..."

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