grazier

1. (UK, historical) One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property.Examples: "Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock."UKhistorical

2. (Australia) The owner of a large property on which sheep or cattle graze.Examples: "They came ungraciously, but after his dark, bodeful hints as to the necessity of their attending service at the grazier's homestead next day, he was invited inside and a place was cleared for him at the table."; "As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted."; "They have been here, the bora rings, for over twenty thousand years, it is believed; it is only in the past hundred, a hiccup in time, that indifferent graziers and the treads of their four-wheel drives have scattered the stones and have imprinted zippered cars across their sacred clay skin."Australia