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单词 musterer
释义 I. musterer1
see muster v.2
II. musterer2 Austral. and N.Z.|ˈmʌstərə(r)|
[f. muster v.1 (sense 6) + -er1.]
One who musters sheep or cattle.
1863E. C. Chudleigh Diary 19 Dec. in Richards Diary of E. R. Chudleigh (1950) 114 All the musterers dogs have come home.1872M. A. Barker in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 20 Of course Christmas Day would be a complete holiday, and we had invited shearers and musterers, and all the odd hands which flock to a station at shearing-time, to come up to our house.1892W. E. Swanton Notes on N.Z. ii. 97 To accomplish this [muster],..on large ‘runs’ additional hands called ‘musterers’ have to be engaged.1947[see muster v.1 6].1961B. Crump Hang on Minute Mate 73 I'm short of a couple of musterers, if you're interested. Done any sheep work before?1970Telegraph (Brisbane) 4 July 2/1 Lawrence Ryan..worked as a musterer on a South Queensland cattle station 20 years ago.
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