bull n
   2 Comb ~ bird,; ~ cook: cook's assistant in a logging camp.
   1983 DAWE & FICKEN 36 Some call it a dovekie,/And that's a good guess,/But to us it's a bull-bird,/No more and no less. 1988 MOMATIUK & EASTCOTT (eds) 139 The little bull-bird, that's a fantastic little bird. It comes in the early winter. There are little ears on it, and they stick up like the horns on a bull. 1985 Terminology of Loggers 3 Bull cook--the cook's helper, who usually carried the [boat's] kettle to the lunchground.

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