Meaning of bangtail muster | Babel Free

Definitions

A muster of cattle, for counting and any of various other purposes, during which any animals not previously counted are bangtailed, treated and released.

Australia

Examples

“There has since been a bangtail muster and already 1,400 cattle are in hand.”

“Investigation shows that during the period studied, five properties made no accurate count of breeders (bangtail muster), while two made one count.”

“A bangtail muster was a count of every beast on a property, and every one of them had to be yarded and have its tail cropped to show it had been counted.”

“There was, for example, a rapid build-up of Ord River station cattle numbers depastured on the river flats, from 400 in 1885 to 30,000 in 1896 and 47,000 at the bangtail muster in 1901-02.”

CEFR level