Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The manager or herdsman of a cattle-station; a shepherd; a herdsman.
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Examples
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Carpenter and the stock-keeper to inventory a line of desk-clocks which they were closing out.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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The stock-keeper hoped when night came he might manage them better, but they still refused to go forward.
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However, by dint of energy and ambition, the stock-keeper triumphed over these difficulties, incessantly renewed though they were.
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Sundry details, added by the stock-keeper, completed the history of this expedition, worthy of being written, if not commended by
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A few minutes later, nothing was visible of the stock-keeper and his troop but a cloud of dust.
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The stock-keeper would be himself forced to wait on the banks of a stream that might have been crossed at once.
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The leader, or to give him his proper designation, the stock-keeper, was part owner of the drove.
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At this time, the stock-keeper and his horse have no sinecure; for the cattle they have to collect, are as wild, and nearly as swift as deer; so much so, that a cattle-hunt in Australia is nearly as much enjoyed by the young men as a fox-hunt in Old England.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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His having forty or fifty cows brought home every evening to milk, would not only make their calves quiet and tractable, but would also compel the stock-keeper to be more active, would keep him at his duty, and, I feel satisfied, would save the proprietor a great deal in the course of the year.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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Charley Carpenter and the stock-keeper to inventory a line of desk-clocks which they were closing out.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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