(n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
(n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
Example Sentences:
(1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(2) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
(3) Now Brokeback Mountain, the tragic love story of two American cowboys, is looking to again chart new territory.
(4) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
(6) The Cowboys, meanwhile, move to 7-3 and are back on the play-off road after a couple of recent bumps.
(7) The Cowboys had one last chance to beat the Eagles but Kyle Orton, doing his best Tony Romo impersonation, threw an interception to end Dallas hopes.
(8) We've all timed our visit to coincide with the annual corrida , a cattle round-up in which all the area's vaqueros (cowboys) unite to retrieve more than 500 cows from all across the range.
(9) The former Foreign Office official, who has known Steele for 25 years and considers him a friend, said: “The idea his work is fake or a cowboy operation is false – completely untrue.
(10) Much has been made of the personal battle being waged by Dez Bryant and Calvin Johnson at Ford Field, but it is instead Terrance Williams who blows this game open, scoring on a 60-yard catch-and-run to make it Cowboys 20-10 Lions .
(11) A good starting point is 1972's The Cowboys, in which Dern became the first man to kill John Wayne in a movie.
(12) Some of it is still naff, but that's bootcut-jeans-wearing cowboys for you.
(13) And it doesn't, because their film was released on the same day as Hollywood blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens , starring proven money-maker Daniel Craig.
(14) Her real passion has always been 1970s character films: Badlands, Midnight Cowboy and Bonnie And Clyde.
(15) Then, in 1963, driving to attend a memorial service for Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, country stars who had died in a plane crash, Anglin was killed in a car accident.
(16) After a coroner recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at the inquest in Oxford in October, his family said US forces had been allowed to behave like "trigger-happy cowboys" and called for charges against those responsible.
(17) Christie, well known for his love of sports teams including the Dallas Cowboys, kicked off his visit by attending Arsenal’s 5-0 Premier League win over Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium.
(18) And partly because too many European companies have a no-questions-asked policy towards every broker and cowboy willing to take troublesome waste off their hands.
(19) 3) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 The Cowboys have enough talent on their roster to be a play-off team.
(20) Alongside any stronger regime for penalties, we would urge measures to tackle domestic and small scale flytipping, for example, by unregistered ‘cowboy’ builders and householders who evade their responsibilities to dispose of waste properly.” Councillor Peter Box, the Local Government Association’s environment spokesman said: “Waste crime costs taxpayers tens of millions of pounds every year and is a burden on businesses, and residents.
Tradesman
Definition:
(n.) One who trades; a shopkeeper.
(n.) A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands.
Example Sentences:
(1) He says his local Warracknabeal football league is finding it increasingly difficult to field teams, as skilled labourers – especially tradesman, such as electricians and carpenters – are lured to the cities and regional centres by the prospect of steady work and higher pay.
(2) The housing market roared back into life last year but Walden said Homebase had failed to feel the full benefit, partly because consumers have less time and enthusiasm for DIY and are more likely to pay a tradesman to do jobs about the home.
(3) Godfrey told the court such directories were kept on the desk in the vestibule where he worked at the "tradesman's entrance" at the castle.
(4) Well, we've decided that, given our system's breakdown history, we're not happy yet to give up the peace of mind the HomeCare policy gives us as far as having no limit to the amount a repair can cost, plus getting an annual system service which we'd have to pay a local tradesman around £100 to do.
(5) And it was here, among the memoirs, diaries and letters that tell of our encounters with art, that I came upon the strange case of a lucky – or unlucky – provincial tradesman, as he describes himself, and his love for a long-lost Velázquez.
(6) We’ve taken that program out [to market] to be a practical assistant, a practical tool that a tradesman could use.
(7) Charles Ledger, a British general tradesman, was able to achieve that thanks to his alert spirit of observation, his (and that of his Bolivian servant Manuel) long experience of the Andes, and the chance that brought them to fall upon a group of exceptional cinchonas which had grown on an impervious slope of the Andes.
(8) In order to determine if the solvent exposures of current union members of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Tradesman (IBPAT) are associated with a genotoxic risk, we have measured the sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequency in their peripheral blood lymphocytes.
(9) The majority of both parent groups were of professional or skilled tradesman status whose income exceeded the then current New Zealand average.
(10) One of the directories with staff extension numbers which was found at Goodman's house was discovered to be carrying the fingerprint of a retired officer, Michael Godfrey, who told the court that he had often worked with a porter on the tradesman's entrance of Windsor Castle, known as The Side Door, and that on night shifts, when the porter was not there, he would have used the directory to check on visitors' credentials.
(11) A cross-sectional study of sister chromatid exchange frequency (SCE) in peripheral blood lymphocytes from 117 members of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Tradesman was conducted in union locals in two major U.S. cities.
(12) A tradesman arrives and hovers awkwardly in the hallway looking alarmed, but Langham isn't the least bit embarrassed.
(13) You know – it’s a sport.” Tennis’s new bad boy was born in Canberra in 1995, the son of a Greek-born tradesman father and a mother who was born as a princess in Malaysia, but dropped her royal title when she moved to Australia as a child.
(14) It shows the lengths criminals will go to, and will send a shiver down the spine of anyone about to have work done on their house or who are thinking about employing a tradesman.
(15) When cold spells hit, users can face a long wait for a tradesman provided by the insurer.
(16) The Times writer was amazed by what he saw: ‘The warmth and life of the flesh, the breathing in the nostrils… ’ For a few cents more, the man from the Times might have bought a curious pamphlet quite unlike the usual hyperbolic handbills to these shows, telling how the portrait came to be painted in Madrid in 1623 and by what luck it came into the possession of a humble tradesman, as the owner described himself, two centuries later in England.
(17) I took the paper from him, he grunted, then applied himself to unstrapping his bag, a canvas holdall that I supposed would be as suitable for a photographer as for any tradesman.
(18) While speaking at the National Press Club on Wednesday, he was given the scenario of a 25-year-old tradesman made redundant with no savings or family support and asked how such a person would feed himself for six months.
(19) 160) with special reference to occurrence in manufacturing industries and craftsman-tradesman occupations.
(20) We haven't really reacted at all," said Kostas Mitas, a 48-year-old tradesman whose views were on display in a T-shirt that proclaimed "fuck off Troika" in an allusion to the country's international creditors.