Glazier vs Grazier - What's the difference?
glazier | grazier |
(UK, historical) One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property.
(Australia) The owner of a large property on which sheep or cattle graze.
* 1963 , Colin Clark, Australian Hopes and Fears ,
* 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 44
* 2000 , Bill Pritchard, Phil McManus, Land of Discontent: The Dynamics of Change in Rural and Regional Australia ,
As nouns the difference between glazier and grazier
is that glazier is one who glazes; a craftsman who works with glass, fitting windows, etc while grazier is (uk|historical) one who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property.glazier
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Noun
(en noun)- Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock.
page 75,
- As a result of these causes the grazier' marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the ' graziers , only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted.
- 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.
page 34,
- The ‘grazier'’ image can be contrasted to that of the ‘cocky’. ' Graziers have tended to own large tracts of land, have inherited family wealth from the heady days of high wool prices, often reside in stately homes, possess a good education, and have taken leadership roles in the industry.