trailhand

T1R1A1I1L1H4A1N1D2

noun

A cowboy or skilled horseman who routinely rides through the rural countryside.

Scrabble 13
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nountrailhand (plural trailhands)

plural trailhands · alternative trail hand

  1. USA 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. USIn the Old West, a mounted worker employed on a cattle drive.

Origin

From trail + hand.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

trailhand. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trailhand

MLA

“trailhand.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trailhand. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trailhand,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trailhand.

Source: trailhand on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.