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ˈstockman
1. A man employed to look after cattle or other live stock. Chiefly Austral.
1806Sydney Gaz. in O'Hara Hist. N.S. Wales (1817) 295 The evidence of the stock-men, who did not attend [the inquest], being essential. 1830Hobart Town Almanack 103 A group of Mr. E. Lord's stockmen. 1862R. Henning Let. 2 Nov. (1966) 113 Mr Palmer was not at home, but we were received by an amiable stockman. 1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 37 Agricultural Labourer{ddd}Stockman. 1891T. E. Kebbel Old & New 167 Shepherds, waggoners and stockmen are paid at a higher rate. 1900Oxf. Times 24 Nov. 1/4 Wanted,—Steady, Industrious Married Man for Breeding Flock, and as Stockman. 1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xi. 100 The subordinate hands on the station—..the groom, stockman, rouseabouts—live in the men's huts, close behind the homestead. 1929K. S. Prichard Coonardoo 5 Nowadays..aboriginal stockmen usually receive a small wage as well as payment in kind by rations. 1944Living off Land iv. 94 Before the sun rises..the stockman's ‘boys’ are back with the horses. 1962A. Upfield Will of Tribe iii. 27 ‘You have two white stockmen.’.. ‘Just the two,’ replied the cattleman. 1978O. White Silent Reach xviii. 191 ‘Where are the stockmen?’.. ‘Out looking for the Dalziel girl.’
2. One who raises live stock; a stock-farmer.
1856Farmer's Mag. Jan. 22 Such a division of labour between farmers and stockmen, and between farmers and dairymen, as has been found to work well in some parts of Scotland and England. 1886C. Scott Sheep Farming 137 In those days the farmer who supplied the best food and the most whisky was accounted the best stockman.
Hence ˈstockmanship, the art of raising or looking after livestock.
1959Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Dec. (Suppl.) 7/2 As science develops{ddd}the art of good farming will remain—the art of knowing when and how to work the soil, the art of stockmanship. 1969J. G. S. & F. Donaldson Farming in Britain Today ii. xviii. 170 Efficient planning of the battery can almost eliminate the need for skilled stockmanship. 1979Daily Tel. 1 May 11/2 Stockmanship, record-keeping, observation, simple disease control..will be the necessary tools of his [sc. the pigman's] trade. |