stockrider

[ stok-rahy-der ]

noun

, Australian.

1. a cowboy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stockrider¹

First recorded in 1860–65; stock + rider

Example Sentences

Fortune favoured them, however, for they met a stockrider of the Nankin Run.

From Project Gutenberg

May had once listened, with vivid interest, to the following description by an old stockrider of one of her feats.

From Project Gutenberg