| 单词 | station hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstation hand station hand n. 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 sense 8). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker stockman1806 ranchero1825 ranchman1854 bush-hand1863 station hand1863 jackeroo1864 boundary-rider1865 bush-rider1883 ringer1909 bush-worker1936 stock-boy1937 jillaroo1945 1863 S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settlem. vi. 75 The station-hands cannot look down upon him, as they do upon the other [non-paying] cadet. 1931 M. Mauron Mount Peacock 76 He asks the stoker, who consults the station-hand—all their watches are in lamentable disagreement. 1992 B. Anderson Portrait of Artist's Wife (1993) vii. 123 Fifty years ago Lookout Station had been self-supporting with its own school, blacksmith and over thirty station hands. < as lemmas |
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