Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Australia, the occupation of a stock-rider; the work of a cow-boy; riding herd.
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Examples
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There are tracks through the endless mallee scrub, only known to the tribes in the neighbourhood, and a few half-castes like Warrigal, that have been stock-riding about them.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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Jack Denver and Big Ben Duggan were boys together on the old selections, and at the new provisional bark school at Pipeclay; they went into the Great North-West together "where all the rovers go" -- stock-riding and droving and overlanding, and came back after a few years bronzed and seasoned and with wild yarns.
The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson 1894
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Fencing, dam-making, horse-breaking, stock-riding, from making hay to building a shed, all bushwork came easy enough to us, Jim in particular; he took a pleasure in it, and was never happier than when he'd had a real tearing day's work and was settling himself after his tea to a good steady smoke.
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870
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Fencing, dam-making, horse-breaking, stock-riding, from making hay to building a shed, all bushwork came easy enough to us, Jim in particular; he took a pleasure in it, and was never happier than when he’d had a real tearing day’s work and was settling himself after his tea to a good steady smoke.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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a few half-castes like Warrigal, that have been stock-riding about them.
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870
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"We got a mortgage on it, and foreclosed it, and it's ours now; and Jerry Lumley's stock-riding for us.
Northern Lights, Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897
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"We got a mortgage on it, and foreclosed it, and it's ours now; and Jerry Lumley's stock-riding for us.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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"We got a mortgage on it, and foreclosed it, and it's ours now; and Jerry Lumley's stock-riding for us.
Northern Lights, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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"We got a mortgage on it, and foreclosed it, and it's ours now; and Jerry Lumley's stock-riding for us.
Northern Lights Gilbert Parker 1897
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