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

Sheep that had hitherto been run in flocks of 1,500 to 2,000, tended during the day by a man and a dog and yarded at night, were now turned into large paddocks by tens of thousands with only a boundary rider to look to the fences.

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It didn't matter in the boundary rider, but p'r'aps it might in the Dook.

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

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The property itself covered I do not know how many square miles, divided into paddocks, and in each or most of these paddocks stood a house in which the boundary rider and his family lived.

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It's Queensland boundary rider's fare, but the best I can offer you.

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