A person employed on a sheep station during the shearing season to prepare meals for the shearers.
the dog was exhausted, and I asked the shearers' cook for scraps
Example sentencesExamples
- The man who earned the most money of all on the station was the shearers' cook.
- He bought the bus from a shearer's cook, who'd travelled in it from farm to station to farm station.
- The shearers' cooks lived tough and usually poor lives.
- He survived a period as a shearers' cook with only two stand-up fights.
- The job of shearer's cook is scary, as these shearers are very demanding when it comes to their food.
- The shearers' cook is a recognisable character in Australian literature and folklore.
- There could be friction between the station cook and the shearers' cook.
- There was a fight between the shearers' cook and his assistant.
- Not even a shearers' cook could keep these boys sated.
- The shearers' cook saw the animal was a ram and refused to accept it.