stockrider
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stockrider
Example Sentences
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May had once listened, with vivid interest, to the following description by an old stockrider of one of her feats.
From Australia Revenged by pseud. Boomerang
There is a similarity between the very old and the very new, and ancient poets perhaps best portray the primitive, sometimes heroic, life of effort the modern stockrider and plowman lead on the prairie.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss
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 Edward Palmer
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 Rolf Boldrewood
Fortune favoured them, however, for they met a stockrider of the Nankin Run.
From Australia Revenged by pseud. Boomerang
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