grazier
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grazier (plural graziers)
- (British) One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property.
- Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock.
- (Australian) The owner of a property on which sheep or cattle graze.
[edit] Usage notes
In Britain, the term is no longer used, but has historical significance.
[edit] Quotations
- 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 44
- They have been here, the bora rings, for over twenty thousand years, it is believed; it is only in the past hundred, a hiccup in time, that indifferent graziers and the treads of their four-wheel drives have scattered the stones and have imprinted zippered cars across their sacred clay skin.
