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  • noun Plural form of cowman.

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Examples

  • Also, when the father arrived to take him away, the cowmen allowed that they would vastly prefer chumming with howling cannibals, gibbering lunatics, cavorting gorillas, grizzly bears, and man-eating tigers than with this particular Young college product with hair parted in the middle.

    When the World Was Young 2010

  • Three months later the doughty cowmen confessed he was too much for them and telegraphed his father to come and take the wild man away.

    When the World Was Young 2010

  • Whats next garden Orcs…I say we stop this madness before we have cowmen walking our lawns and eating all of our precious grass!

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - I want THIS for my garden 2008

  • Along with the associated difficulties in buying pants, cowmen also have very limited employment opportunities.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Science creates cow/man hybrid 2008

  • During its five-year reign as king of the cowtowns, small farmers—or nesters as the cowmen called them—had been pushing steadily westward along the Kansas Pacific until most of the free range was gone.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • Lou was a natural-born hotelier, a friend to all cowmen, rich or poor, sick or well.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • She was popular with both townsfolk and visiting cowmen, and frequently was invited to sing at weddings and funerals.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • When unexpected tragedy strikes, farmers and cowmen alike must confront the untamed wilderness of the human heart.

    Live Theatre - "Oklahoma", Stratford Teena in Toronto 2007

  • The cowmen of the west and northwest were flat broke.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • The Texas cowmen were soon convinced the wire would hold cattle satisfactorily and without injury.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

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