单词 | boundary-rider |
释义 | > as lemmasboundary-rider boundary-rider n. Australian and New Zealand one who rides round the fences of a station, and repairs them when broken. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker stockman1806 ranchero1825 ranchman1854 bush-hand1863 station hand1863 jackeroo1864 boundary-rider1865 bush-rider1883 ringer1909 bush-worker1936 stock-boy1937 jillaroo1945 1865 Australasian 15 July 13/4 The shepherds and boundary-riders of the past and present. 1890 E. W. Hornung Bride from Bush xviii. 279 A boundary-rider..sees that the sheep in his paddock ‘draw’ to the water, that there is water for them to draw to, and that the fences and gates are in order. 1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft iv. 94 There are no boundary riders on these cattle holdings. < as lemmas |
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