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[US] W. James Lone Cowboy 231: There’d been a ‘hanging bee’ [...] Cattle rustlers or horse thieves had had their horses led out from under ’em.
at hanging bee, n.
[US] W. James Lone Cowboy 77: The bull-whacker had no use for horses and the skinner had no use for bulls.
at bullwhacker, n.
[US] W. James Lone Cowboy 134: I’d get to see the boys [...] whenever they changed horses, and when the ‘Nighthawk’ (night-wrangler) took my place in herding the horses for the night. [Ibid.] 172: The jinx seemed to’ve camped on that outfit’s tail, far as nighthawks was concerned. One had been busted up pretty bad [...] Another had been killed by lightning.
at nighthawk, n.
[US] W. James Lone Cowboy 172: I was hired, hired to nighthawk.
at nighthawk, v.
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