Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stock-farm or station at a distance from the head or main station.
- noun A regimental station far from headquarters or from a center of population.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I go to visit Sergeant Dan at his out-station, and he takes me around the patch where he has been for three years.
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December 9, 2005 at 12: 30 am backgammon money play real backgammon money play real It was here he opened a trespassers out-station, and affectionately-surveyed his monarchical-aristocratical mesenteric works, under the assumed wood-sawyer of Market-house Sur.
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As your mob increases, you can put an out-station on the other side the run.
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I unsaddled and lay down to sleep, the rain was pouring hard, when I heard a donkey braying, so I shouted, and was answered by a man in a puesto (out-station).
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We reached an out-station on the Cheyenne about dark, where James Brown, a
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This, with Nellwood as an out-station, will probably soon receive an excellent pastor, trained in our Congregational ways and principles.
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As this class of men is happily disappearing from the country, and giving place to steady and persevering immigrants, the charge of an out-station, when not in the hands of one with the old leaven of improvidence unexterminated, necessarily becomes the probationary lot of a "new chum."
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To-day, he stands at the head of his grade and conducts one of our out-station Sunday-schools every Sabbath.
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The out-station work among the Indians is a feature almost peculiar to the Indian Missions of the A.M.A. These stations are the picket-lines pushed forward into the Reservations beyond the line of established schools and missions.
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This glimpse of out-station work is something I have long wanted, and anyone who does not believe in Indian education should see the results of it as they appear here.
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