MUSTER

Muster

A muster or a roundup is the process of gathering livestock. Musters usually involve cattle, sheep or horses, but may also include goats, camels, buffalo or other animals. Mustering may be conducted for a variety of reasons including routine livestock health checks and treatments, branding, shearing, lamb marking, sale, feeding and transport or droving to another location. Mustering is a long, difficult and sometimes dangerous job, especially on the vast Australian cattle stations of the Top End, 'The Falls' country of the Great Dividing Range and the ranches of the western United States. The group of animals gathered in a muster is referred to as ...

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muster

Noun

  1. Gathering.
    1. An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
      1. An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
  1. The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
  2. A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
  1. Showing.
  1. Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
  2. An act of showing something; a display.
    1. A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists).

Verb

  1. To show, exhibit.
  2. To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
  3. To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
  4. To enroll (into service).


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