stockbreeder
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- stockbreeding noun
Example Sentences
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State broadcaster ERT separately reported that the body of a 41-year-old stockbreeder who had been missing since Sunday was found burned in a shack in a hard-to-reach area on Evia.
From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2023
And this, mark you, without the intervention of any stockbreeder, human or divine, and without will, purpose, design, or even consciousness beyond the blind will to satisfy hunger.
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
No stockbreeder in his senses ever thinks of breeding from a youthful, immature sire.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
The author is a practical farmer and stockbreeder, and is able to vouch for the correctness of the remedies for diseases of Domestic Animals, as well as the best mode of managing them.—Huron,
From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by Quinby, M. (Moses)
He was one of those who had much to lose and little indeed to gain by taking up arms against us, for, by honest industry, he had become a wealthy farmer and stockbreeder.
From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by Hales, A. G. (Alfred Greenwood)
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