crow-bait

Rosinante reincarnate, a gigantic "crow-bait" with a head as long and coarse as an eighteen-hand mule's, an under lip pendulous as a camel's dropping ears nearly long enough to brush flies off his nostrils, with such an ingrowing concavity of under jaw and convexity of face as would have enabled his head to supply the third of a nine-foot circle, a face curved as a scimitar and nearly as sharp.

The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

"Let me set out in the open once, with a good horse under me instead of a specimen of crow-bait, and I'll open your eyes!"

The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis Willard F. Baker

We were some relieved to find the family all right, but Texas Pete had bored one of them poor old crow-bait hosses plumb through the head.

Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909

"Come on, crow-bait!" yelled Brann, insultingly, as he came down past the doctor, and seemed about to pass Albert and Maud.

Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900

Mounting my crow-bait, I struck out in a westerly direction to look for the stock.

Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899

But say, I won't be in the store more than a second, and it doesn't seem worth while to tie the old crow-bait.

The Daughter of Anderson Crow George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Mounting my crow-bait, I struck out in a westerly direction to look for the stock.

Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains William F. Drannan 1872

I haven't seen a crow-bait since I've been in town. "

The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886