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Cowherd

One whose occupation is to tend cows.

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Cowboy 76% connected

A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United Stat…

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Gaucho 76% connected

One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.

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Roper 76% connected

A maker of ropes.

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Vaquero 76% connected

One who has charge of cattle, horses, etc.; a herdsman.

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Wrangler 76% connected

An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness.

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Puncher 92% connected

One who, or that which, punches.

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Bag noun · 78% connection

mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

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Bovine adjective · 78% connection

Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.

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Bull verb · 78% connection

To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.

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Cattle noun · 78% connection

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin…

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Central vowel noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) any vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.; "In practice, unround…

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Cleaning noun · 78% connection

The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.

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Cowleech noun · 78% connection

One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.

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Cowleeching noun · 78% connection

Healing the distemper of cows.

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Cows noun · 78% connection

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin…

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Decline verb · 78% connection

To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to…

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Diverge verb · 78% connection

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to…

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Draff noun · 78% connection

Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.

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Farrow adjective · 78% connection

Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.

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Feed verb · 78% connection

To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boi…

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Garget noun · 78% connection

A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands.

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Gene linkage noun · 78% connection

(genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a giv…

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Go verb · 78% connection

To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to avail; to apply; to contribu…

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Gravitate verb · 78% connection

To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any dire…

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