dragsman

Updated: May 29, 2025

For what with whistling, and coaxing, and swearing, and swinging his "riatta" over their heads, he had them as much under his command as ever a crack dragsman had his four-in-hand in the good old coaching times of my own dear England.

Henry Vizetelly - California : Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts