Synonyms:
roundup
Meaning: the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold
Usage examples
Thurston did not go on the horse roundup.
"Jack and I are holding down the ranch just now; the boys are all on roundup, of course.
He packed his trunk carefully with everything he would not need on the roundup, and his typewriter he put in the middle.
"No, and the Lazy Eight never had to work the Yellowstone range on spring roundup before either," Park told her meaningly.
By the time the horse roundup was over, one Philip Thurston was in pessimistic mood and quite ready to follow the wagons, the farther the better.
Then, with Mona once more in the saddle, and with Thurston leading Sunfish by the bridle-rein, they trailed damply and happily up the long ridge to where the white tents of the roundup gleamed sharply against the sky-line.