Definition of "cow-puncher" []

• A cattle-driver on the great plains of the United States. Sometimes used for cow-boy. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "One unlucky and simple-minded cow-puncher, who had never been east of the great plains in his life, unwarily boasted that he had an aunt in New York, and ever afterward went by the name of "Metropolitan Bill.""
• "One of the Wallers was a cow-puncher from New Mexico, the other the champion Yale high-jumper."
• "A brave but fastidious member of a well-known Eastern club, who was serving in the ranks, was christened "Tough Ike"; and his bunkie, the man who shared his shelter-tent, who was a decidedly rough cow-puncher, gradually acquired the name of "The Dude.""