ranch hand

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Noun1.ranch hand - a hired hand on a ranchranch hand - a hired hand on a ranch    
cowboy, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher, cattleman - a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
hired hand, hired man, hand - a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"
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*** RANCH HAND - Unbeaten in two races at Southwell on the all weather but first start on turf and up in grade.
RANCH HAND (4.45) can extend Andrew Balding's spring winning streak.
Kaspar Companies, a 121 year-old, fifth-generation family business, is the parent company of nine subsidiaries: Truckfitters, Ranch Hand, Bedrock Truck Beds, Horizon Firearms, iota Outdoors, Kaspar Manufacturing, Texas Precious Metals, Silverback Homes, and Espresso Marketing.
"I don't know." Almost immediately after the Cardinals traded for six-time All-Star and first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, Carpenter unpacked his Rawlings infielder's glove, enlisted a ranch hand and started going daily to a nearby high school field to take grounders at third base.
The father, a ranch hand, named his third son Akihiro in Japanese or Myung-bak in Korean, meaning bright and know-well.
As a part of the war in Vietnam, the United States military sprayed millions of gallons of herbicides and defoliants between 1962 and 1971 under Operation Ranch Hand. Agent Orange was commonly used to strip the Viet Cong guerrillas of forest cover and food sources, killing trees and crops.
And other residents of the ranch Claras invalid husband, her two daughters, the old Mexican ranch hand seem to go along with such an "open family policy" as if its perfectly natural.
Like Hung Duc, Khanh is believed to be a victim of Operation Ranch Hand, the United States military's effort during the Vietnam War to deprive the enemy of cover and food by spraying defoliants.
While the ranch hand had given me some advice, the rest was up to me.
And though I dreamt of becoming a ranch hand or a grassland ranger, a paper route and a lawn-mowing business were among my earliest bouts of gainful employment.
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