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stock-route

[ stok-root, -rout ]

noun

, Australian.
  1. a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stock-route1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

Before he was thirty, Harrington was known as one of the most experienced and fortunate over-lander drovers in Australia, and he became as familiar with the long and lonely stock-route from the stations on the Gulf of Carpentaria to Sydney and Melbourne, in his many journeys, as if it were a main road in an English county.

He reported having found a practicable stock-route, of which he was chiefly in search, as far as the Warburton Ranges, and some pastoral land north and west of Elder Creek.

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