boundary rider

noun

, Australian.

a ranch hand who patrols the boundary of a sheep or cattle station in order to watch the stock, repair fences, etc.

boundary rider

an employee on a sheep or cattle station whose job is to maintain fences in good repair and to prevent stock from straying

First recorded in 1860–65

It's Queensland boundary rider's fare, but the best I can offer you.

Mind you, I was twelve miles from a house, and five from the nearest fellow-creature, a boundary-rider on the next run.

Big "tank" full of good water through the scrub to the right, but it is a private tank and a boundary-rider is shepherding it.

It happened one day when he had resigned his position as boundary-rider, in which he was practically useless.

As well might one offer a dish of salmon to an Alaskan fisherman; or a ragout of mutton to an Australian boundary rider.

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