broadhorn

Hold on tight: But what could the Concord sage have known of the news off the boat when that boat was a keelboat or a broadhorn docking at the noisome slum of Natchez-under-the-Hill or New Orleans where some eighty years later a precocious Jelly Roll Morton was learning the street songs that would ultimately scorch the stately décor of the Library of Congress's Coolidge Chamber Music Auditorium when he recorded them for Alan Lomax?

In Praise Of the Gross Lee Sandlin 2012

Minerva kept watching the pigeons as Jackson and his crew maneuvered the broadhorn in toward the dock.

The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

Minerva kept watching the pigeons as Jackson and his crew maneuvered the broadhorn in toward the dock.

The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

Minerva kept watching the pigeons as Jackson and his crew maneuvered the broadhorn in toward the dock.

The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976

Where the broadhorn [A] drifted slow at the will of the current,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

At last they reach the head of the rapid, and the boat floats out on the placid pool above, while the "alligator-horse" who had the mishap remarks to the scenery at large that he'd be "fly-blowed before sun-down to a certingty" if that were not the very pole with which he "pushed the broadhorn up Salt River where the snags were so thick that a fish couldn't swim without rubbing his scales off."

The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway Archer Butler Hulbert 1903

"No broadhorn there," said Pinky Smith, after he got well, and assumed the envied position of oracle on matters at the Halfway House.

The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890

It had been learned yet again that the buffalo grass and the sweet waters of the far North would fatten a range broadhorn to a stature far beyond any it could attain on the southern range.

The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West Emerson Hough 1890

I never could get at him but twice; though I give him then a mighty smart hammering; and if he hadn't got under the broadhorn and got drowned; -- but this fellow? "

Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838