stock-route

American  

[stok-root, -rout] / ˈstɒkˌrut, -ˌraʊt /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of stock-route

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg