Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dwelling-house and offices on an Australian sheep- or cattle-station.
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Examples
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Considering she tramped from the head-station here all the eighty miles on foot, just because of some breeze with the cook there, she must be mightily afraid of being alone.
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They hardly spoke, they had nothing in common now; once they reached the head-station, they would part never to meet again.
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The meal done, Stanesby called to his black boy to bring up the horses, and touching the girl on the shoulder drew her aside, evidently to explain that he was going into the head-station and wanted provisions for the journey.
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He would go into the head-station with him to-morrow morning, he very much doubted if he would come back.
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They were still a good forty miles from the head-station, and this horse was coming from the opposite direction.
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Then when their horses were recruited they set out for the head-station of Nilpe
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The Malay boy waited at table with the assistance of a servant girl from Leuraville, the only female domestic – with the exception of Mrs Hensor – on the head-station.
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They had not arrived at the head-station till after dusk, but it had been visible from the plain a long way off, and she had examined it with ardent curiosity through her field-glasses in the clear light of sunset.
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The details of Moongarr head-station became familiar enough later to its new mistress.
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Mrs Gildea sighed as she read, and pictured in her imagination the wild wastes of the Never-Never Land and the rough head-station which was to be Lady Bridget's home.
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