Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A horse used on an Australian station in driving, mustering, cutting out, and similar work.
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Examples
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And the stock-horse snuffs the battle with delight.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Cutting competitions — in which horses and riders are judged on their cattle-handling skills — involve quarter horses or other stock-horse breeds.
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And he raced his stock-horse past them, and he made the ranges ring
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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And the stock-horse snuffs the battle with delight.
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"Ah!" faltered the inquirer, "then no doubt you had a real ringin 'good stock-horse that could take you through a scrub like that full-split in the dark, and not hit you against anything."
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Dowered with the poet's heart, he must yet have passed his 'wander-jaehre' amid the stern solitude of the Austral waste -- must have ridden the race in the back-block township, guided the reckless stock-horse adown the mountain spur, and followed the night-long moving, spectral-seeming herd 'in the droving days'.
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So sudden was the attack that the stock-horse had barely time to spring aside; but, quick as it was, Considine's revolver was quicker.
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Then the cattle began to get winded, and I dug into the old stock-horse with the spurs, and got in front, and began to crack the whip and sing out, so as to steady them a little; after awhile they dropped slower and slower, and I kept the whip going.
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And he raced his stock-horse past them, and he made the ranges ring
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But Beeswing was a bred stock-horse, she knew the game and loved it.
A Tramp's Notebook Morley Roberts 1899
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