stockrider
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stockrider
Example Sentences
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Yis," said the boy, "me bin stockrider belonga Yenda.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
At other seasons it swirled by, frothing in green-stained flood, swollen by the drainage 27 of snowfield and glacier, and there was no stockrider at the Range who dared swim his horse across.
From The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Bindloss, Harold
There is a similarity between the very old and the very new, and ancient poets perhaps best portray the primitive, sometimes heroic, life of effort the modern stockrider and plowman lead on the prairie.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold
A stockrider, when he would appear in a gay shirt, tight white moleskins, cabbage-tree hat, flash riding-boots with glittering spurs.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
A stockrider of Caledonian extraction had borrowed my banjo to amuse his comrades, and they appreciated his irony when he played the new arrivals in to the tune of "The Campbells are coming."
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold
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