Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bangtail muster

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bang-tail -muster
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A muster of cattle, for counting and any of various other purposes, during which any animals not previously counted are bangtailed, treated and released.

Australian usage

Example Sentences

"There has since been a bangtail muster and already 1,400 cattle are in hand."
"Investigation shows that during the period studied, five properties made no accurate count of breeders (bangtail muster), while two made one count."
"A bangtail muster was a count of every beast on a property, and every one of them had to be yarded and have its tail cropped to show it had been counted."
"There was, for example, a rapid build-up of Ord River station cattle numbers depastured on the river flats, from 400 in 1885 to 30,000 in 1896 and 47,000 at the bangtail muster in 1901-02."

Etymology

From bangtail (“to dock the tail brush”) + muster (“a roundup”).

Usage

Australian usage

Inflected Forms

bangtail musters (plural)

Questions

What does bangtail muster mean?: A muster of cattle, for counting and any of various other purposes, during which any animals not previously counted are bangtailed, treated and released.
Where does bangtail muster come from?: From bangtail (“to dock the tail brush”) + muster (“a roundup”).

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