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

Fortune favoured them, however, for they met a stockrider of the Nankin Run.

From Australia Revenged by Boomerang, pseud.

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

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 Bindloss, Harold

Yis," said the boy, "me bin stockrider belonga Yenda.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

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 Bindloss, Harold