head station


noun

Australian the main buildings on a large sheep or cattle farm

Example sentences from the Web for head station

  • They were still a good forty miles from the head-station, and this horse was coming from the opposite direction.

    The Moving Finger |Mary Gaunt
  • They hardly spoke, they had nothing in common now; once they reached the head-station, they would part never to meet again.

    The Moving Finger |Mary Gaunt
  • He would go into the head-station with him to-morrow morning, he very much doubted if he would come back.

    The Moving Finger |Mary Gaunt
  • Then when their horses were recruited they set out for the head-station of Nilpe Nilpe.

    The Moving Finger |Mary Gaunt