cattle-jobber

Updated: May 17, 2025

I prefer, however, to leave this possibility for the discussion of Mr. Caird and Mr. Clare Read, and to confine myself to the fact that the Western cultivator is far less a farmer than a cattle-jobber or gambler in four-legged stock. The poor inhabitants of the islands between this place and Achill Point cannot certainly be accused of a tendency to gad about.

Bernard Henry Becker - Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

Gilroy, of Queercove Hill, a great cattle-jobber, with a 'small independence of his own' three hundred a year, perhaps, which a kind world called six Facey thought he would just hang about until his uncle was done with his shoes, and then be lord of Queercove Hill.

Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour