stock-route

[ stok-root, -rout ]

/ ˈstɒkˌrut, -ˌraʊt /

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noun Australian.

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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Origin of stock-route

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby stock-route

stockpot, stock power, stock raising, stockrider, stockroom, stock-route, stocks, stock saddle, stock shot, stock solution, stock-still

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Example sentences from the Web for stock-route

Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?
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AirAsia has now been grounded on this route by the Indonesians.
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And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.
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Otis, who tells me he was called “Saladin” on the inside, has taken an almost tragically circuitous route in getting here.
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After a hit, they would adjust the search to the most likely route from there.
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I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
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Alice Arden, you little dream of the man and the route by which, possibly, deliverance is speeding to you.
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Neither privately owned nor government stock is entitled to voting power.
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I didn't take much stock in the yarn at the time, but I'm beginning to think he had it straight.
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One day she had heard a man say, "If there is a drought we shall have the devil to pay with our stock before winter is over."
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

British Dictionary definitions for stock-route

stockroute

/ (ˈstɒkˌruːt) /

noun

Australian and NZ a route designated for droving sheep or cattle

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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