Grazier definition

grāzhər
(chiefly brit.) A person who grazes beef cattle for sale.
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(UK, historical) One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property.

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

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(Australia) The owner of a large property on which sheep or cattle graze.
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A person who grazes cattle.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
grazier
Plural:
graziers

Origin of grazier

  • Middle English grasier from grasen to graze graze1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Grazier Sentence Examples

  • The grazier buys and sells cattle much less frequently than the butcher buys them, so that the latter is naturally more skilled in estimating the weight of a beast through the use of the eye and the hand.

  • Every effort will be made to find a grazier to maintain its condition for the future.

  • It is the religion of the settled grazier and the peasant, while the ruder daeva-cult holds its ground among the uncivilized nomadic tribes.

  • Afterwards, owing to the increased attention given to stock-fattening and dairying, and to a rise in prices, farming reached a condition of equilibrium, and the most noticeable residuum of the period of depression was the large intrusion of the butcher and grazier class into the farmer class proper.

  • The reserve has its own small flock of sheep for this purpose, but cattle from a local grazier are also used.

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