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stockman

[stok-muhn, -man] / ˈstɒk mən, -ˌmæn /




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Lockie Kallis, 23, the lead stockman, also cut the horns off them to keep them from hurting people or one another, creating a steady drip of blood.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

“Back in the day, the eye of the stockman was all we had, and now we have high-powered analytical tools and can make progress so much faster.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2019

According to Italian news agency ANSA, he now works for the Italian Red Cross as a warehouse stockman, finally able to provide for his child back in Nigeria.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2018

The Nigerian now works as a stockman at a warehouse for a charity organization.

From Reuters ● Mar. 31, 2018

Half way through the meal there was a heavy step in the verandah, and a moment later Ruford, Jim's one remaining stockman, entered the room.

From A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Newell Boothby

By 1888, New York politician and sometimes rancher Theodore Roosevelt described Western stockmen as "the pioneers of civilization," who with "their daring and adventurousness make the after settlement of the region possible."

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2024

The court heard the cows were being turned out from two large winter sheds to summer grazing fields by farmer Alistair Nixon and two experienced stockmen.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023

“The stockmen and some of the businesses on the north side were unhappy,” said retired University of Texas at Dallas professor Clay Reynolds, author of the 1995 Stock Show history “A Hundred Years of Heroes.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2019

Clapier said Ponzo tended to two children he had with a girlfriend and to the cows, now being fed by other stockmen.

From Reuters ● Feb. 9, 2011

Ancient Anasazi potsherds mingle in the sand with rusty tin cans discarded by tum- of-the-century stockmen, who grazed and watered their animals in the canyon.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer


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