stockrider
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stockrider
Example Sentences
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Fortune favoured them, however, for they met a stockrider of the Nankin Run.
From Australia Revenged by Boomerang, pseud.
A stockrider of Caledonian extraction had borrowed my banjo to amuse his comrades, and they appreciated his irony when he played the new arrivals in to the tune of "The Campbells are coming."
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold
But the trained stockrider makes light of all these discomforts, in fact he looks on them as all in the bill of fare, and belonging to the day’s work.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward
Yis," said the boy, "me bin stockrider belonga Yenda.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
I've seen a stockrider, when all the horses were dead beat, trying to get fat cattle to take a river in flood, jump off and turn his horse loose into the stream.
From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Boldrewood, Rolf
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