Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is devoted to horse-racing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. A turfite; a votary of the turf, or race course.
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- noun A person who goes
horse racing , or who owns race horses
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Examples
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He is a turfman, with carefully brushed side-whiskers dyed coal-black, and hawk-like eyes.
Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 Ruth Pierce
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But like his brother in arms, Colonel Cash, of the Eighth, and brother turfman, he became disgusted with the thievery and trickery of later day sports and quit the turf, still owning at his death some of the most noted racers of the times, Granger Lynchburg, John Payne,
History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert
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During that period of ardent, laborious youth, he faithfully shut himself up in libraries, attended public lectures, and gave himself a solid foundation of learning, which sometimes awakened surprise when discovered under the elegant frivolity of the gay turfman.
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He was a turfman of the old school, and there were but few courses in the South that had not tested the mettle of his stock.
History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert
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He nodded up the aisle where the turfman was entertaining the major and his wife.
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He told everything, and the turfman, chin in hand, eyes riveted on the narrator, listened absorbed.
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There, a man's horse is his life; to the turfman it is his fortune -- one and the same.
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The others were "Cottonton," as the turfman called them.
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It was a month, dating from the memorable meeting with the turfman, before Garrison was able to leave the hospital.
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Here Crimmins carefully selected a variety of adjectives with which to decorate the turfman.
hernesheir commented on the word turfman
(n): one interested in or involved professionally in horse racing.
(Not uncommonly a sod, to hear tell.)
January 11, 2009