cattle-run

He had been a butcher, a drover, part owner of stock, and had at last become possessed of a share of a cattle-run, and then of the entire property, such as it was.

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

Boolabong, and was a cattle-run, as distinguished from a sheep-run; but it was a poor place, was sometimes altogether unstocked, and was supposed to be not unfrequently used as a receptable for stolen cattle.

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

Many a fine cattle-run is rendered useless in dry seasons, by want of water.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

Where the cattle-run remains it is mapped out as a "reserve" for a certain townland, and is greatly prized by the peasants.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

Years had knitted him and Jim and Norah into a firm triumvirate, mates in the work and play of an Australian cattle-run; watched over by the silent grey man whose existence centred in his motherless son and daughter -- with a warm corner in his affections for the lithe, merry Queensland boy, whose loyalty to

Captain Jim Mary Grant Bruce 1918

All that the bush could teach her Norah knew, and in most of the work of the station – Billabong was a noted cattle-run – she was as handy as any of the men.

Mates at Billabong 1911

Rifles cracked to right and left of him, like stock-whips in a cattle-run.

On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913

Dinky-Dunk is fencing in some of the range, for a sort of cattle-run for our two milk-cows.

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

The horses tied up, across the road, in the supposed shade under clumps of scraggy saplings along by the fence of a cattle-run.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

The name of "Ocho Rios" had been given to the station by the man who had first taken up the block of country for a cattle-run.

Tom Gerrard Louis Becke 1884