A person who tends to livestock, especially cattle; a cowboy or ranch worker.
Compound of 'stock' (from Old Norse 'stokkr,' meaning tree trunk, later animals) and 'man' (from Germanic). The term became common in Australian and American English to describe pastoral workers.
In Australia, a 'stockman' is a figure of frontier mythology similar to the American cowboy, celebrated in songs and literature as embodying toughness and independence. The profession has largely disappeared with industrialized ranching, but the word persists as a cultural memory of a way of life when individual skill and courage directly meant survival on dangerous cattle stations.
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