whaler n.2
(Aus.) a tramp, a vagrant.
 | Southerly Busters 177: Though not a ‘whaler’ now, And many a score of sheep I’ve shore For good old Jacky Dow [AND]. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Squattermania 243: How did they manage the Murrumbidgee whalers, as they call them, where you were? | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Aug. 21/3: There are fifty-thousand ‘whalers’ about without a foot of land, / There are twice five-hundred squatters hold Australia in their hand? | |
| Brisbane Courier (Qld) 24 Nov. 7/7: The loafer who travels from station to station seeking work is a ‘sundowner’; seeking work but not wishing to get it, a ‘whaler’. | |
| Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 53: These people [...] confuse the man who ‘swags it’ from necessity with the ‘sundowners’ and ‘whalers’ who eke out a living tramping from one place to another begging and stealing. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 5 July 16/1: [T]he wife and family all had bluey up; the eldest lad, about 10, staggered under a drum fit for any old whaler, while another game little pebble, apparently not more than seven summers, bent beneath the weight of the family bedding. | |
| Outback in Aus. 144: On the Murrumbidgee we asked several questions of an old ‘whaler.’. | |
| Townsville Daily Bull. (Qld) 10 Aug. 16/2: ‘Larry’ addresses the wandering multitudes: Hoboes, Bagmen, Whalers and Hatters. |
In compounds
(Aus.) brown sugar mixed with cold tea to make a thick paste.
| Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Sept. 16/4: ‘Murrumbidgee jam’ consists of brown sugar muddled up with cold tea. When spread on damper, and dropped jam-side down in the sand, it doesn’t taste so well as when not dropped jam-side down in the sand. It is also called Whaler’s Delight. |