boundary rider

American  

noun

Australian.

1. a ranch hand who patrols the boundary of a sheep or cattle station in order to watch the stock, repair fences, etc.

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boundary rider British  

noun

1. an employee on a sheep or cattle station whose job is to maintain fences in good repair and to prevent stock from straying

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Etymology

Origin of boundary rider

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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boundary rider

Jackaroo, n.: boundary rider, station hand, sheep drover.

From Time Magazine Archive

"On the pay slips I'm a boundary rider," he says, when quizzed, "but the locals call me a dogger."

From Time Magazine Archive

The best thing I can do is to go back, and turn boundary rider or whim driver.

From Tiny Luttrell by Hornung, Ernest William

In succession he became sheep shearer, railway labourer, boundary rider, stock runner, scrub-cleaner, coastal sailor, dishwasher in a bush hotel, itinerant umbrella-mender and sheep drover.

From The War After the War by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

I've been a boundary rider; I've sheared sheep; and humped my swag; and harpooned a whale.

From To-morrow by Conrad, Joseph