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bangtail muster

bangtail muster noun: a muster of cattle, for counting and any of various other purposes, during which any animals not previously counted are bangtailed, treated and released.

Noun

bangtail muster (plural bangtail musters)

  1. (Australia) A muster of cattle, for counting and any of various other purposes, during which any animals not previously counted are bangtailed, treated and released.
    • There has since been a bangtail muster and already 1,400 cattle are in hand.1926, Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Debates, volume 113, page 2099
    • Investigation shows that during the period studied, five properties made no accurate count of breeders (bangtail muster), while two made one count.1965, Australian Veterinary Association, Australian Veterinary Journal, volume 41, page 352

Examples of bangtail muster in a sentence

  • A bangtail muster was a count of every beast on a property, and every one of them had to be yarded and have its tail cropped to show it had been counted.1973, Hector Holthouse, S'pose I Die: The story of Evelyn Maunsell, page 123:
  • There was, for example, a rapid build-up of Ord River station cattle numbers depastured on the river flats, from 400 in 1885 to 30,000 in 1896 and 47,000 at the bangtail muster in 1901-02.2010, Michael Pearson, Jane Lennon, Pastoral Australia: Fortunes, Failures & Hard Yakka: A Historical Overview 1788-1967, page 169:

Forms of bangtail muster

pluralbangtail musters

Origin of bangtail muster

From bangtail (“to dock the tail brush”) + muster (“a roundup”).

Questions about bangtail muster

What does bangtail muster mean?
Bangtail muster means a muster of cattle, for counting and any of various other purposes, during which any animals not previously counted are bangtailed, treated and released.
How do you use bangtail muster in a sentence?
A bangtail muster was a count of every beast on a property, and every one of them had to be yarded and have its tail cropped to show it had been counted.
What part of speech is bangtail muster?
Bangtail muster is a noun.
What is the plural of bangtail muster?
The plural of bangtail muster is bangtail musters.

Words near bangtail muster in the dictionary

  1. bangsters
  2. bangstick
  3. bangsticks
  4. bangstry
  5. bangtail
  6. bangtail muster
  7. bangtail musters
  8. bangtailed
  9. bangtailing
  10. bangtails
  11. Bangubangu

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