boundary rider
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person employed to travel along the boundary of a station, to check and maintain the fencing.
Australian usage
noun
A commentator on Australian rules football games who reports from the boundary of the field of play, and interviews players on the interchange bench as well as coaching and medical staff.
Australian usage
Example Sentences
- "For these sixty-seven and a half miles of fence we must have three men known as boundary riders. A boundary rider is one whose duty is to see that the fence is in order."
- "No. 2 shows a boundary-rider. This out-back servant of the State has about 70 miles of fencing to look after and inspects the whole every six days."
- "When profits were high enough to finance improvements, therefore, fences replaced hurdles and boundary riders replaced shepherds. The boundary rider was responsible, as the name suggests, for riding the run boundaries and checking the fences were secure. He was also responsible for keeping the native dog population under control."
- "Patterson was a boundary rider and lived with his wife at ‘Old Pratts’ dam hut."