Welcome to our Weekly Western Word of the Day...or, as I affectionately call it, Western Wednesdays!
Punching - the term for herding cattle
Originally, "cowpuncher" who a man hired specifically to chaperone a shipment of cattle. Eventually "cowpuncher" was shortened to "puncher". They didn't actually punch a cow but they did prod it to keep it moving. The device they used was a "prod-pole".
Source:
Cowboy Lingo by Ramon F. Adams; ISBN#0-618-08349-9
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