stock-route

[stok-root, -rout]

noun

Australian.

1. a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stock-route¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Before he was thirty, Harrington was known as one of the most experienced and fortunate over-lander drovers in Australia, and he became as familiar with the long and lonely stock-route from the stations on the Gulf of Carpentaria to Sydney and Melbourne, in his many journeys, as if it were a main road in an English county.

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He reported having found a practicable stock-route, of which he was chiefly in search, as far as the Warburton Ranges, and some pastoral land north and west of Elder Creek.

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