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noun

Gaucho n. (pl. gauchos)

One of the native inhabitants of the South American pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle. Hence, a South American cowboy, especially on the pampas.

A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast.

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Etymology of 'Gaucho'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gaucho" Quotes from Famous Books

... impossible story to be founded on my own childish impressions and adventures, with a few dreams and fancies thrown in and two or three native legends and myths, such as the one of the Lady of the Hills, the incarnate spirit of the rocky Sierras on the great plains, about which I heard from my gaucho comrades when on the spot—the strange woman seldom viewed by human eyes who is jealous of man's presence and is able to create sudden violent tempests to frighten them ...

— A Little Boy Lost • Hudson, W. H.

... them pith a struggling and lassoed cow on the ground with unerring skill, which no mere anatomist could imitate. The pointed knife was infallibly driven in between the vertebrae by a single slight thrust. I presume that the art was first discovered by chance, and that each young Gaucho sees exactly how the others do it, and then with a very little practice learns the art. Now I suppose that the sand wasps originally merely killed their prey by stinging them in many places (see page 129 of Fabre's 'Souvenirs,' and page 241) on the lower and softest ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin

... an exhibition of his skill as a gaucho. One of the wildest of the horses would be let loose in the park, and the old soldier, armed with a lasso and mounted on an animal trained by himself, and equipped with a South American saddle, would follow and try to "rope" the runaway, Mr. Fortescue, Rawlings, and myself riding after him. ...

— Mr. Fortescue • William Westall

... rifle, and sprang towards it, coiling it as he took it up. Lucien could throw a lasso almost as well as Basil himself; and that was equal to a Mexican "vaquero" or a "gaucho" of the Pampas. He ran nearly under the limb, twirled the lasso around his head, and launched ...

— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid

... better,' persisted aunt. 'I've heard such a deal about this Gaucho malo that I should very much like ...

— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables

Words linked to "Gaucho" : puncher, cowboy, cowman, cowhand, cattleman