Stockmen

Word STOCKMEN
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Definitions and meanings of "Stockmen"

What do we mean by stockmen?

A man who raises or looks after livestock.

A person who works in a stockroom.

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The word "stockmen" in example sentences

In our northern country we have "free grass"; that is, the stockmen rarely own more than small portions of the land over which their cattle range, the bulk of it being unsurveyed and still the property of the National Government—for the latter refuses to sell the soil except in small lots, acting on the wise principle of distributing it among as many owners as possible. ❋ Unknown (1896)

This matter attended to, he strolled over to the ranch blacksmith shop and searched through it until he found that which he sought -- a long, heavy pair of bolt-clippers such as stockmen use for dehorning young cattle. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The last-named antidote is regarded as almost certain, and a great many people, such as stockmen, wood-cutters, farmers, and the like, carry in their pockets a hypodermic syringe, charged and ready for use. ❋ Thomas Wallace Knox (1865)

The States and Feds spent millions erradicating wolves and coyotes from the West over many years for the benefit of ranchers and stockmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the foreground, two mounted stockmen watch a small herd of healthy Hereford cattle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They were carefully overseen by skilled stockmen who knew that the best management for these magnificent creatures was to ensure that they had the space and freedom to utilize the land to their own advantage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the Barkindji, whose forebears were once permitted in town only as servants and nursemaids, or who worked as stockmen in the outer regions, now own the public spaces. ❋ Thomas Keneally (2010)

He understood the game too well, and was always a step ahead of everyone else, including the white stockmen. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

Swaying herds of thin, listless brown cattle grazed along the road verges, attended by stockmen in shorts and Blunstone boots parked up in the shade of trees in their utility trucks, with flasks, radios and a dog or two. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

When they saw the long line of painted warriors approaching, all the stockmen who had gathered some said seven, others sixteen took cover in a well-built hut with slots in the walls to poke rifles through. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

The Aborigines might have issued a challenge to the white stockmen as they sometimes did to settle their own differences, with day and hour formally stipulated. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Eric gave it a wry look and spoke of the white squatter stockmen and how they disposed of the Kamilaroi Aborigines who harassed them on the plains in the early days of settlement. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Romantic images of stockmen and gold prospectors symb­olised a simpler, agricultural Australia. ❋ Hels (2009)

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