cattlebuyer

plural cattlebuyers

1. alternativeAlternative form of cattle-buyer.

   The man nodded at the satchel with its straps and brass catches. I said are you a cattlebuyer.

   1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 19

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   How happy everybody! neighbor talking with neighbor, merchant with merchant, politician with politician, Baptist with Presbyterian, cattlebuyer with banker, druggist with saloonkeeper—everybody with somebody.

   1893, Anson Uriel Hancock, Silhouettes from Life: On the Prairie, in the Backwoods, page 85

   His father had been a roving cattlebuyer in Idaho, Montana, and the Dakotas who packed his family around with him and named his children after their birthplaces.

   1965, The Sage of Petaluma: Autobiography of a Teacher, page 184