Stockman vs Jackaroo - What's the difference?
stockman | jackaroo |
A man who raises, or looks after livestock
A person who works in a stock room
(Australia, Queensland, obsolete) A white man living outside white settlement.
(Australia) A trainee station manager or owner, working as a stockman or farm hand; formerly, a young man of independent means working at a station in a supernumerary capacity to gain experience.
* 1895 , , Saltbush Bill'', ''The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses ,
* 1964 , Russel Braddock Ward, The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads ,
* 1974 , The Pastoral Review , Volume 84,
As nouns the difference between stockman and jackaroo
is that stockman is a man who raises, or looks after livestock while jackaroo is a white man living outside white settlement.As a verb jackaroo is
to work as a jackaroo.stockman
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Noun
(wikipedia stockman) (stockmen)jackaroo
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Alternative forms
* jackerooNoun
(en noun)page 37,
- But this is the tale of a Jackaroo that came from a foreign strand, / And the fight that he fought with Saltbush Bill, the King of the Overland.
page 86,
- A Jackeroo lived, as a kind of gentleman apprentice, in the squatter?s or manager?s homestead, not in the men?s huts; but most of his daily work was done side by side with the working ‘hands’.
page 611,
- Frequently the overseer would come to me and say a certain jackeroo was useless, and would never be any good, when the boy had only just started.