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Definition of Grazier
1. Noun. A rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market.
Definition of Grazier
1. n. One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market.
Definition of Grazier
1. Noun. (UK historical) One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property. ¹
2. Noun. (Australia) The owner of a large property on which sheep or cattle graze. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grazier
1. one that grazes cattle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grazier
Literary usage of Grazier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1798)
"... farmer and grazier, to Mi ft Se well, of Scopwick. At Bodón, Mr. William Squire,
jun. to Mifs Blackbourn, daughter of Mr. Peter Blackbourn, ..."
2. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... to the hunter and grazier, and of a rich requital in future for the toils of
the husbandman. The temptation to occupy it could not be resisted by the ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"ye,' said Mr Tup, * it» two jean come taking him up, said the grazier, ...
This the grazier said with no small and so, Master Noah Tup repeated the degree ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Day (1824)
"5 Ann. 22. a grazier or drover. Cont. before. Jon. 304. Nor a gun-founder; for
he works for the service of the army. Skin. 292. ..."
5. Prairie Farming in America: With Notes by the Way on Canada and the United by James Caird (1859)
"—Large Purchase of Land by Kentucky grazier.—His Plan and Prospects.— Farina.—Trading
Spirit of the People.—Urbana.—Complaints of Wheat Failure. ..."
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