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trailhands

trailhands is the plural of trailhand.

Meaning of trailhand

Noun

trailhand (plural trailhands)

  1. (US) A cowboy or skilled horseman who routinely rides through the rural countryside.
    • I've gone horseback riding many times since I was a little girl, and my 9-year-old daughter Emily considered herself an old trailhand.2003 July 6, Sara Campbell, “When a horseback ride turns into horror on the hoof”, in The Dallas Morning News
  2. (US) In the Old West, a mounted worker employed on a cattle drive.

Questions about trailhands

What is trailhands the plural of?
Trailhands is the plural of trailhand.

Words near trailhands in the dictionary

  1. trailerships
  2. trailery
  3. trailest
  4. traileth
  5. trailhand
  6. trailhands
  7. trailhead
  8. trailheads
  9. trailin'
  10. trailing
  11. trailing arbutus

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