stock-rider

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


a man employed to look aftercattle, properly on an unfenced station.

1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush Ballads' [Title]:

«The Sick Stock-rider.»

1892. Gilbert Parker, `Round the Compass in Australia,' p. 33:

«`Thus far into the bowels of the land

Have we marched on without impediment,' said a lithe-limbed stock-rider, bearded like a pard, as he lithis pipe – – the bushman's only friend. And this was once a fellowof St. John's, Cambridge.»

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