: one occupied as an owner or worker in the raising of livestock (such as cattle or sheep)
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebSet in Alice Springs, Australia, in 1929, the movie tracks the fate of Sam (a fine Hamilton Morris), an Aboriginal stockman forced to flee after killing a white farmer in self-defense. Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018 The Oregon Badlands are home to ancient Native American petroglyphs, which pop up on weathered rocks, as well as remnants of white settlement, like an old stockman’s shelter and a fenced-off cistern on the side of the trail.OregonLive.com, 15 Oct. 2017 If there’s any sort of trouble on public lands that affects ranchers in any minor way, that stockman calls his congressman, calls his county commissioner, calls his councilman.National Geographic, 12 Feb. 2016