stockrider

American  

[stok-rahy-der] / ˈstɒkˌraɪ dər /

noun

Australian.

1. a cowboy.

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Etymology

Origin of stockrider

First recorded in 1860–65; stock + rider

Example Sentences

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stockrider

At other seasons it swirled by, frothing in green-stained flood, swollen by the drainage 27 of snowfield and glacier, and there was no stockrider at the Range who dared swim his horse across.

From The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Harold Bindloss

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

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

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