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Definition of Grassers
1. grasser [n] - See also: grasser
Literary usage of Grassers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Statement of the Trade and Commerce of St. Louis by Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis, George H Morgan (1917)
"A few Kansas grassers reached the market in .July, selling at $10.10 per cwt.
... Heavy supplies of Oklahoma grassers arrived in the native division during ..."
2. The American Live Stock Market by Arthur C. Davenport (1922)
"grassers. A great many sheep are fed in the western ... They may be westerns or
natives, shorn or wooled, grain fed or grassers. ..."
3. What's what in the Labor Movement: A Dictionary of Labor Affairs and Labor by Waldo Ralph Browne (1921)
"Those workers who depend upon "grass work" are commonly known as "grassers"
or "grass hands." They are usually extra or relief workers, who "fill in" during ..."
4. The Phonographic Magazine by Jerome Bird Howard (1906)
"We sold a four-car bunch of rough grassers weighing 1122 Iba. on Thursday at $5.45;
... Kansas grassers at $6.60. The good fat cattle have not changed ..."
5. A Handbook of Agriculture by Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes (1888)
"Pig-s Good Grassers.— It is often disputed that pig', when nursing the dam, ...
I have found that they are not only good grassers, but that they make larger ..."
6. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1905)
"Revised quotations for beef cattle follow: Inferior grass native steers $2.60 to
$3.15 Common to good grassers •. 3.25 to 4.10 Common to fair ..."
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