stock-keepern.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money
hoarder944
treasurerc1290
purse-bearerc1300
coffererc1330
pursera1450
boucherc1450
bowgerc1450
purse-masterc1450
thesaurer1473
expenditor1499
bowser1534
bursarya1552
bursar1587
stock-keeper1589
bag-bearer1598
bourser1685
sumptuary1789
money manager1874
investment manager1879
tizzy-snatcher1914
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Biijv The stocke-keeper of the Bridewel-house of Canterburie; he must carrie the purse, to defray their charges.
2.
a. One who keeps cattle; a stock-farmer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer
breeder1531
stock-farmer1769
Boer1776
stock-breeder1815
stockholder1819
veeboer1824
ranchero1825
rancher1836
ranchman1854
stockman1856
pastoral1876
stock-keeper1912
1912 Times 19 Oct. 7/4 Stock-keepers on both sides of the Channel had begun to hope that the necessary period of quarantine for Irish cattle might soon be at an end.
b. Australian, etc. A herdsman or shepherd; = stockman n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > herding > herdsman or woman
herdc725
herdmanc1000
lookera1225
tripherd1305
hogger1327
pastorc1400
pastorelc1440
leader1495
pasture-man1547
herd-maid1588
herdsman1603
pastoral1607
feeder1611
creaght1634
herder1635
keep1641
creaghter1653
town herd1760
herd-boy1799
stock-keeper1806
senn1826
herd-girla1856
herd-laddie1865
pastoralist1879
1806 Sydney Gaz. 4 May 1/1 Anthony Size, stock keeper at Prospect.
1821 in E. Curr Van Diemen's Land (1824) 154 Prisoner servants employed..as stock keepers.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 37 Agricultural Labourer..Stock Keeper.
3. One who is in charge of the stock of a warehouse.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > in warehouse or store
warehouseman1635
warehouse-keeper1683
storeman1885
stock-keeper1902
stocker1921
1902 Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 9/6 (advt.) Situation in a London warehouse..as checker, stockkeeper, or clerk.
Derivatives
ˈstock-keep v. to tend cattle, etc.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > keep cattle [verb (intransitive)]
ranch1890
stock-keep1890
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I. x. 156 [I can] drive bullocks, stock-keep, plough.
ˈstock-ˌkeeping n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun]
rearinga1398
nourishing1615
conservation1646
zoosophy1662
culture1744
cultivation1791
zoogeny1826
zootechny1841
stock-keeping1844
ranching1851
conditioning1861
zootechnics1863
zooculture1873
zootrophy1877
animaliculture1879
mothering1922
stockmanship1959
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun]
cattle-farming1806
stock-keeping1844
cattle ranching1866
stock-farming1866
cattle-rearing1871
boviculture1876
cattle-breeding1877
ranching1882
pecudiculture1885
cow-work1886
1844 W. Wakefield in N.Z. Company Rep. (1845) xvii. 139 The sport of hunting them [sc. deer]..would afford a manly amusement to the young Colonists, fitting them for the more serious occupations of stock keeping and wool growing.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 30 Where..the farmer understands the business of stock-keeping and stock-feeding.
1907 M. C. F. Morris Nunburnholme 252 Stock-keeping was but little understood.
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