stockbreeder
Britishnoun
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- stockbreeding noun
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A 41-year-old stockbreeder, missing since Sunday, was also found burned in a shack in a remote area.
From Reuters
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
For under the conventions is a shrewd stockbreeder's intuition that blood lines are strengthened by a little exogamy.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a matter of fact, greed for gold has become so dominant, human life, so cheap, and its progress through culture, held in such low estimation; that it is not unusual, not even a matter of comment, to hear of a wealthy stockbreeder, who willingly pays from ten to twenty thousand dollars a year to the trainer of his horses; while he grudgingly pays five hundred dollars a year to the teacher of his children.
From Project Gutenberg
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,
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