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Definition of station man in English: station mannoun Australian A person who works on or owns a sheep or cattle station. the station men troop in to see the first sheep shorn Example sentencesExamples - Walking up the street we meet a knot of station-men from the Murray.
- One Saturday evening when the station men were all at the homestead collecting their rations and grinding their flour, a howling surge of warriors came across the ridge.
- The station men all had some ability to make themselves understood in a mixture of bush English and Anmatyerre or Warlpiri.
- The station men had taken up position among the boulders beneath the rock-shelters, from which there was no escape other than coming out into the open.
- The shearing came round on the Maroo just as the station man got back from Queensland.
- The miners, as well as some old drovers and station men, had come to Australia from every nation on earth.
- Dinny believed that, as the station men approached, a draft of wind had caused the fire-sticks to flare, and given their hiding place away.
- Most of the evenings at Terinallum — and on all sheep stations — are like this; a station man and his wife, his household and his lonely house, and all around the immense emptiness of the Australian plains.
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