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pastoralist|ˈpɑːstərəlɪst, ˈpæs-|
[See -ist.]
1. A writer of pastorals.
1793Drayton's Wks. 588 Spenser is the prime Pastoralist of England. 1882Grosart Spenser's Wks. III. p. liv, Quotations from representative ‘Pastoralists’ (if the name be allowable).
2. One who lives by keeping flocks of sheep or cattle; spec. (Australia) a sheep-farmer, a squatter.
1880Gentl. Mag. CCXLVI. 62 The outside districts, occupied only by pastoralists. 1890Times 14 Oct. 7/1 Representatives of the newly formed Pastoralists' or Squatters' Union. 1911J. Collier Pastoral Age in Australasia iii. 16 The pastoralist, however, needs something more than level and spacious lands; he needs water and grass. 1926Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 10 Jan. 1/5 A sheep calendar is to be issued, illustrating the various acts to be engaged in by the pastoralist in care of his flock. 1941I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang v. 35 Coastal pastoralists [in Australia] generally speak of a beast or beasts to the acre. 1973Sci. Amer. July 74/3, I obtained more responses from the herders of Kapsirika than from the farmers of Sasur. This was partly because polygamous marriages are twice as common among the pastoralists. 1975Nature 15 May 180/2 A highland ridge, supporting an agricultural population of some 2.2 million, cuts into a semi-desert lowland (‘Issa and Ogaden) which is seven times greater in area, with a population in normal times of up to 0.5 million pastoralists. 1977Caravan World (Austral.) Jan. 107/1 The road..proved a lifeline to the pastoralists of the west. |