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horse trader

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noun

a person who is shrewd and clever at bargaining.

a person who trades in horses.

Origin of horse trader

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Words nearby horse trader

horse rake, horse sense, horse show, horse stinger, horse trade, horse trader, horse trading, horse's ass, horse's mouth, horse's neck, horse's tail

Example sentences from the Web for horse trader

The preceding incident leads to another, in which Lincoln himself figures as a horse-trader.

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln |Francis Fisher Browne
"Now you listen at me, son," the horse-trader began again, when he judged the cooling process was sufficiently advanced.

The Quickening |Francis Lynde
The horse-trader looked long and hard, and they could hear him still talking to the dog.

The Quickening |Francis Lynde
A horse-trader offered him seventy-five dollars for the animal.

The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 |Various

He looks to me like a Yankee horse-trader, who is too intimate with the devil and his ways to be at all alarmed about them.

The Crime of the French Caf and Other Stories |Nicholas Carter