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Definition of station rations in English: station rationsplural noun Australian An allowance of food and drink given to a worker on a sheep or cattle station. she saw a straggling group gathering food to supplement station rations Example sentencesExamples - The men worked hard clearing and fencing in their allotted blocks, receiving the station rations while doing so.
- As a child, Daisy ate wild fruit along with the station rations.
- I'll advance you the fifty pounds, and I'll pay you a rabbit scalp bonus of twenty shillings a thousand, and give you station rations.
- Here they would become acquainted with flour, tea and sugar, station rations shared by their more acculturated kinsmen.
- A proportion of Aborigines were employed on the stations, thus giving rise to a major distinction between those still mainly dependent on the bush for survival and those more heavily dependent on station rations.
- Most Aboriginal people remained in the general region of their own traditional lands, settling on the nearest station, supplementing their station rations by hunting and gathering.
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