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bullwhacker † Hist.

• 1 n. the driver of a bull train of oxen.

  See also: whacker  

  • 1870  It scares off the gaim and drives off the fraters [freighters] and bullwhackers and pilgrims. . . .
  • 1962  The following . . . is largely the soliloquy of Hank, an old bullwhacker. . . .

• 2 n. a long whip used by drivers of bull teams.

  See also: bull team  

  • 1884  Bye and Bye he took a chair, laid aside his bull whacker, took a smoke at his calumet, and entered into conversation.