A man employed to look after cattle or other livestock. Chiefly Australian.
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释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker (12) stockman1806 A man employed to look after cattle or other livestock. Chiefly Australian. ranchero1825 Esp. in the south-western U.S. and Mexico: a person who farms or works on a ranch; the owner of a ranch; a rancher. ranchman1854 The owner or manager of a ranch; (also) a man employed on a ranch. bush-hand1863 station hand1863 a person who works at a station (in various senses); (Australian and New Zealand) a person employed to do general work on a stock station (see… jackeroo1864 Originally: a young man (usually British and of independent means) seeking to gain experience by working in a supernumerary capacity on a sheep… boundary-rider1865 one who rides round the fences of a station, and repairs them when broken. bush-rider1883 ringer1909 Australian. A stockman or station hand, esp. one engaged primarily as a drover. bush-worker1936 stock-boy1937 (a) Australian an Aboriginal person employed to look after cattle or other stock; (b) U.S. a boy employed by a business firm to look after stock. jillaroo1945 A female station-hand. So as v. intransitive, to work as a jillaroo. |
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