grazier

Definition

One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English grasiere, from grasen (“to graze”) + -iere (agentive suffix). By surface analysis, graze + -ier.

Example Sentences

• "Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock."
• "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."