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boundary rider
noun
- a ranch hand who patrols the boundary of a sheep or cattle station in order to watch the stock, repair fences, etc.
boundary rider
noun
- an employee on a sheep or cattle station whose job is to maintain fences in good repair and to prevent stock from straying
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of boundary rider1
Example Sentences
Sheep that had hitherto been run in flocks of 1,500 to 2,000, tended during the day by a man and a dog and yarded at night, were now turned into large paddocks by tens of thousands with only a boundary rider to look to the fences.
It didn't matter in the boundary rider, but p'r'aps it might in the Dook.
The best thing I can do is to go back, and turn boundary rider or whim driver.
The property itself covered I do not know how many square miles, divided into paddocks, and in each or most of these paddocks stood a house in which the boundary rider and his family lived.
It's Queensland boundary rider's fare, but the best I can offer you.
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