1. A man employed to look after cattle or other live stock. Chiefly Austral.
1806. Sydney Gaz., in O’Hara, Hist. N. S. Wales (1817), 295. The evidence of the stock-men, who did not attend [the inquest], being essential.
1830. Hobart Town Almanack, 103. A group of Mr. E. Lord’s stockmen.
1881. Instr. Census Clerks (1885), 37. Agricultural Labourer…. Stockman.
1891. T. E. Kebbel, Old & New Eng. Country Life, 167–8. Shepherds, waggoners, and stockmen are paid at a higher rate.
1900. Oxf. Times, 24 Nov., 1/4. Wanted,—Steady, Industrious Married Man for Breeding Flock, and as Stockman.
2. One who raises live stock; a stock-farmer.
1856. Farmer’s Mag., Jan., 22. Such a division of labour between farmers and stockmen, and between farmers and dairymen, as has been found to work well in some parts of Scotland and England.
1886. C. Scott, Sheep-Farming, 137. In those days the farmer who supplied the best food and the most whisky was accounted the best stockman.
