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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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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

In Queenstown, before we set out to find the former sheep station Thiel had bought, we went to look for the house he owned in the town itself.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 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

He was on his way to see a sick friend at a sheep station over the ridges, but he said that he could spare an hour or two.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry

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