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station mannoun AustralianA person who works on or owns a sheep or cattle station: the station men troop in to see the first sheep shorn...- The shearing came round on the Maroo just as the station man got back from Queensland.
- 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.
- 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.
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