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[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 57: I made my getaway about three shakes too soon, by gum!
at two shakes of a lamb’s tail, phr.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 61: ‘And if I don’t agree with y’u?’ ‘There’s all outdoors ready to receive y’u, seh.’.
at all outdoors, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 28: The mistress of the ‘gasolene bronc’ neatly clad in a simple white lawn.
at benzine buggy, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 105: I see him studying a Wind River Bible* (*A Wind River Bible in the Northwest ranch country is a catalogue of one of the big Chicago department stores).
at bible, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 104: Conversation at the bunkhouse and the chucktent sometimes circled around the young women at the house.
at chuck house (n.) under chuck, n.3
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 149: See what y’u done, y’u blamed chump!
at chump, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 55: I’ll cipher out somehow to be there.
at cipher, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 223: Y’u’re a cool hand, my friend.
at cool hand (n.) under cool, adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 55: Y’u bet this dance is ace high [...] this dance ain’t in the order of culls. No, siree, it’s cornfed.
at cornfed, adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 234: Chalkeye was deadly on the shoot, and was ready for it at the drop of a hat.
at deadly, adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 48: Denver’s some in the turtle-dove business, according to that hash-slinger in Cheyenne.
at turtle (dove), n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 84: Have a dust-cutter, Mac, before she grows warm.
at dust-cutter (n.) under dust, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 61: The boys don’t like seeing your hardware so prominent at a social gathering [...] I’m a committee to mention the subject and to collect your thirty-eights.
at thirty-eight, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 81: I reckon Cousin Ned’s my meat. Y’u see I get him in the flapper without spoiling him completely.
at flapper, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 105: Tame that fog-horn, son.
at foghorn, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 43: I ain’t used to them gas wagons.
at gas wagon (n.) under gas, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 55: Slim’s purple deepened again. ‘Y’u go to grass, Mac.’.
at go to grass!, excl.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 69: Y’u better roll your trail, seh; and if y’u take my advice, you’ll throw gravel lively.
at scratch (the) gravel (v.) under gravel, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 57: I made my getaway about three shakes too soon, by gum!
at by gum! (excl.) under gum, n.2
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 105: ‘Hen fruit, sunny side up,’ shouted Reddy.
at hen fruit (n.) under hen, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 57: Now ain’t that hoodooed luck?
at hoodoo, adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 136: ‘How did you ever find me?’ ‘Followed the track of the gas wagon to where it ran out of juice.’.
at juice, n.1
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 46: Get a jump on you, then.
at get a jump on (v.) under jump, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 136: We set our peepers on Judd.
at peeper, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 74: ‘You’re a fine pair of ring-tailed snorters, ain’t y’u?’ jeered the foreman.
at ringtailed snorter, n.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 69: Y’u better roll your trail, seh.
at roll one’s bones (v.) under roll, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 56: It’s going to be strictly according to Hoyle — no rough-house plays go.
at roughhouse, adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 65: It’s a scrub bunch. We want to get rid of them.
at scrub, adj.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 18: Bump me off—send me across the divide.
at send across the divide (v.) under send, v.
[US] W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 48: Denver’s some in the turtle-dove business, according to that hash-slinger in Cheyenne.
at some, adj.
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