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单词 back station
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Definition of back station in English:

back station

noun
Australian, NZ
  • A part of a farming estate that is separate from the main estate.

    the photograph shows two young settlers riding out to a far back station
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The horses were not what I should call really good buckers, such as you might get on a back station.
    • After his father's death in 1848, he inherited a back-station on Pulletop Creek.
    • The boy met with an accident on a back station in the North-West.
    • It was the spirit of the men who, upon the outbreak of hostilities, travelled fast from far back stations by horse.
    • On the back stations shearing will be late, and will probably extend well into February.
    • Even the back stations have had a very mild winter.
    • He was old and had had a bad time out on the farthest back station.
    • I am also speaking for the men on the back stations, where they have to accommodate a very large number of musterers for a short time every year.
    • The back stations were now about to be ploughed up.
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