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sheep station

British  

noun

  1. Also called: run.  a large sheep farm

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The sheep station was taken up by a newly arrived Highland Scot named Niel Black early in 1840.

From The Guardian Mar. 22, 2019

Robert McBride, whose parched sheep station in the state of New South Wales depends on its flow, estimates that 600km of the lower Darling will run dry this year.

From Economist May 17, 2018

This place, we speculated, must have been purchased as a kind of apocalyptic pied-a-terre: somewhere he could base himself, maybe, while whatever construction he had planned for the sheep station was underway.

From The Guardian Feb. 15, 2018

The station is the target of a lawsuit filed in June by environmental groups who contend at least one grizzly bear has died because of the sheep station.

From Washington Times Jun. 28, 2014

That evening a messenger arrived from the sheep station to say my cook's mother had died just before sunset.

From The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by Parker, K. Langloh (Katie Langloh)

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