Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A farmer who is chiefly engaged in the breeding and rearing of different kinds of live stock. Also called
store-farmer .
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Examples
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Thus ingloriously ended my first and last adventure as a stock-farmer.
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These Bedouins of the West have been a terror to the stock-farmer since 1864.
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Bay, he became a _ganadero_, or stock-farmer -- the industry in those days chiefly followed by Californians.
The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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Calderon, as said, is a gentleman by birth, and a _ganadero_, or stock-farmer, by occupation.
The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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The "Fly" started from Ballytrain at the usual hour, with only two inside passengers -- to wit, our friend the stranger and a wealthy stock-farmer from the same parish.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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Malcolm Lennox (for such was the name of the young recruit to whom we refer) was a native of one of the north-western counties of Scotland, where his family had settled, and where his father, by following the occupation of an extensive stock-farmer, and by introducing the improvements and the habits of industry peculiar to the low countries into the highlands, had acquired considerable wealth.
Drawing-Room Tales. The Stout Gentleman; The Deserter; and The Broken Heart 1830
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