Roughrider

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roughrider \Rough"rid`er\, n.
     1. One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a
        noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty
        is to assist the riding master.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. An officer or enlisted man in the 1st U. S. Volunteer
        Cavalry, a regiment raised for the Spanish war of 1898,
        composed mostly of Western cowboys and hunters and Eastern
        college athletes and sportsmen, largely organized, and
        later commanded, by Theodore Roosevelt. Sometimes,
        locally, a member of any of various volunteer cavalry
        commands raised in 1898. [Colloq.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  roughrider
       n : a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle