Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man employed on an Australian farm or ‘station’ to ride over the estate, inspecting the fences and gates.
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- adjective Attributive form of
boundary rider , noun.
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Examples
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Of course the real boundary-rider or cattleman is without equal in his own way.
With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett
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After a while a boundary-rider appeared and camped near by: "Good morning" said the boundary rider.
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Nothing would induce me to show more respect to an appraiser of the runs than to a boundary-rider, or to a clergyman than a drover.
My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916
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A boundary-rider had reported that a magnificent blue gum that they had long called King Koree had been blown down during a violent gale, and Mr. Hassal immediately declared that, whatever the trouble, it must be brought for the foundation of a kind of dam across the creek at Krangi-Bahtoo, the picnic spot.
Seven Little Australians Ethel Sybil Turner 1915
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He was sent out to do slavery for Greenhide Billy, a boundary-rider who plumed himself on having once been a cattle-man.
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It happened one day when he had resigned his position as boundary-rider, in which he was practically useless.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02 Gilbert Parker 1897
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He had been a man of innumerable occupations -- nothing long: caretaker of tanks, rabbit-trapper, boundary-rider, cook at a shearers 'camp, and, in due time, he became book-keeper at O'Fallen's.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02 Gilbert Parker 1897
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It happened one day when he had resigned his position as boundary-rider, in which he was practically useless.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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He had been a man of innumerable occupations -- nothing long: caretaker of tanks, rabbit-trapper, boundary-rider, cook at a shearers 'camp, and, in due time, he became book-keeper at O'Fallen's.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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It happened one day when he had resigned his position as boundary-rider, in which he was practically useless.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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