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单词 cattle-buyer
释义

cattle-buyer

See also: cattlebuyer

English

Alternative forms

  • cattlebuyer

Noun

cattle-buyer (plural cattle-buyers)

  1. One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers.
    • 2009, Annie Proulx, ‎Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog:
      It was not Johnny's fees but the drummers passing through with their lines of dry goods and notions, it was the occasional cattle-buyer who stopped for the night and took a meal—it was they who paid the bills.
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