Crossword clues for stockman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stockman \Stock"man\, n.; pl. Stockmen.
A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of,
herds of live stock. [Australia & U.S.]
--W. Howitt.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A man who raises, or looks after livestock 2 A person who works in a stock room
WordNet
n. farmer who breed or raises livestock [syn: stock raiser, stock farmer]
Wikipedia
In Australia a stockman (plural stockmen) is a person who looks after the livestock on a large property known as a station, which is owned by a grazier or a grazing company. A stockman may also be employed at an abattoir, feedlot, on a livestock export ship, or with a stock and station agency.
Stockmen who work with cattle in the Top End are known as ringers and are often only employed for the dry season which lasts from April to October. A station hand is an employee, who is involved in routine duties on a rural property or station and this may also involve caring for livestock, too. With pastoral properties facing dire recruitment problems as young men are lured into the booming mining industry, young women from the cities are becoming a common sight on outback stations, often attracted by the chance to work with horses. Some stations are now making changes for the employment of women by building female living quarters and installing hydraulic cattle crushes etc. An associated occupation is that of the drover, who, like the shearer may be an itinerant worker, and is employed in tending to livestock while they are travelling on a stock route.
A station trainee is known as a jackaroo (male) or jillaroo (female), and does much the same work as a stockman.
Usage examples of "stockman".
Good stockmen were easy to come by, and Paddy had nine single men on his books in the old jackaroo barracks, so Stuart could be spared from the paddocks.
The boys scattered to get horses, and the stockmen were piling out of the jackaroo barracks, while Mrs.
Where the two stockmen and Tom, the garden rouseabout, stayed no one knew, but Mrs.
Near the mausoleum he noticed two new graves, old Tom, the garden rouseabout, and the wife of one of the stockmen, who had been on the payroll since 1946.
In recent years, its population had tripled after Texas-based Dy-Corp began strip-mining coal on the old Stockman place not far from town.
And down by Kosciusko, where the pine-clad ridges raise Their torn and rugged battlements on high, Where the air is clear as crystal, and the white stars fairly blaze At midnight in the cold and frosty sky, And where around the Overflow the reedbeds sweep and sway To the breezes, and the rolling plains are wide, The man from Snowy River is a household word to-day, And the stockmen tell the story of his ride.
Mexican rancheros grazed more kinds of critters, from cows to poultry, than most Anglo stockmen.
When that day came round, Jimmy, the stockman, would come slouching into his master's office, cabbage-tree hat in hand.
So he'd about decided to try his luck at the Black Cat or Pronghorn when he saw an elbow's worth of mahogany between a townee and a stockman and wedged his taller frame into the gap to see if he could catch the barmaid's eye without violating the civic ordinance forbidding a serious discharge of firearms within the Denver city limits.
Longarm didn't see any serious stock, Or serious stockmen, on the modest Mexican milpas this close to Escondrijo.
The gang hauled on the ropes to raise the beast on the frame as the stockman rapidly sliced through the great vessels on either side of her neck, the rich blood gushing into a cauldron waiting ready with oatmeal, herbs and dry fat.
Todd's horse had been spooked by one of Wayne's bombs the year before, dumping him in the pigpens, so he kept one wary eye on the stockman as they passed him.
The program was quarterbacked by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director David Stockman (b.
He'd been worried about free-ranging hogs the night before, knowing how Mexican rancheros grazed more kinds of critters, from cows to poultry, than most Anglo stockmen.
She was certainly the premier stockwoman of America, and if Jim Lloyd had been interested in playing that game, he could have been one of the leading stockmen, but he withstood the lure of the show ring and never had his photograph taken with his winners.