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grazier

[ UK /ɡɹˈe‍ɪzɪɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪziɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market

How To Use grazier In A Sentence

  • With their backs to the economic wall, many graziers are trying to survive by putting more livestock on the already depleted land.
  • Graziers tell stories of good years when the grass is up to their waists, but at the moment, only patchy areas have enough rain to put a nice bit of grass on the ground.
  • 'Twas Si himself that was riding gaily up the water, for he had disposed of his 'hogging' to a grazier from Hexham at a good price, and was now bethinking him whence he had best re-stock his farm -- whether from Border Ghost Stories
  • It was a sheep grazier of Scottish descent, who saw the potential of camels for carrying goods on a commercial basis, particularly in the centre of Australia.
  • With the exception of some twenty cows and calves usually kept about the house, to give milk, which are called the milking herd, the grazier sees nothing of his herds but on muster-days, which occur twice a year. Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.
  • The recovery bill has reached half a billion dollars, and the February and July floods affected around 1,800 dairy farmers and graziers.
  • In most places our graziers are now grown to be so cunning that if they do but see an ox or bullock, and come to the feeling of him, they will give a guess at his weight, and how many score or stone of flesh and tallow he beareth, how the butcher may live by the sale, and what he may have for the skin and tallow, which is a point of skill not commonly practised heretofore. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • It may be worth receiving a lower rent and having a more reliable grazier who will keep the land in a tidy condition.
  • At the Brisbane boarding school he attended as a child he met many sons of Charleville graziers.
  • However, most of the old rabbit fences have now fallen into disrepair as graziers and government scientists put their faith in calicivirus, the new biological control for rabbits which destroy vegetation.
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