as in cowboy
a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range an expert cowman who can round up the livestock in no time

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Recent Examples of cowman Bella Hadid has returned from playing the starring role in Rodeo and Juliet–a sort of real-life rom-com where an international supermodel falls in love with a simple Texan cowman and realizes there is a life beyond New York, London, Paris and Milan–and is (more importantly) back in capri pants. Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 2 May 2024 McGuinn’s handshake indicated that, indeed, the farmer and the cowman, or the country traditionalist and the Byrd-man, could be friends. Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Jan. 2022 The crowd roared in wonder, then stood again, whooping like farmers and cowmen. Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019

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“Cowman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cowman. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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