6 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
noun a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws Proto-Germanic *kōz Proto-West Germanic *kō Old English cū Middle English cow English cow Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English cowman From cow + -man.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0