bullwhacker

[ bool-hwak-er, -wak- ]

noun

, Western U.S.

1. (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bullwhacker¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; bull ¹ + whacker ( def )

Example Sentences

Slathered in the restaurant’s Bullwhacker BBQ Sauce, the sandwich is a gloriously messy thing to behold.

From Seattle Times

Slathered in the restaurant’s Bullwhacker BBQ Sauce, the sandwich is a gloriously messy thing to behold.

From Seattle Times

Kinds of Outfits, Etc. The freighter’s team was composed of from four to six yokes of oxen, sometimes more, driven by one man called a “bullwhacker.”

From Project Gutenberg

But on the way back Stetson sold it to a St. Louis bullwhacker for $5 in gold, thereupon decided to go into business.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Arkansas, where he worked as a bullwhacker, he came down with malaria, which he tried to treat with a patent medicine called Orang Utan Liniment and teas brewed from rattlesnake weed.

From Time Magazine Archive