1953 G. Durrell Overloaded Ark 30: I dashed him two packets of cigarettes, and he trotted off [...] A little distance away I saw the council members close in on him and skilfully relieve him of most of the dash [ibid.] 31: I will pay them one and six a day, and they will get dash for every animal they catch.at dash, n.2
1953 G. Durrell Overloaded Ark 30: I dashed him two packets of cigarettes, and he trotted off [...] A little distance away I saw the council members close in on him and skilfully relieve him of most of the dash.at dash, v.3
1953 G. Durrell Overloaded Ark 235: Sparks, the radio operator, was one of those who always came and talked to George [i.e. a caged baboon].at sparks, n.2
1953 G. Durrell Overloaded Ark 50: I was beginning to doubt Elias’s judgment of this grass field as a good place for beef [i.e. pidgin for a small animal], when on the seventh pitch we struck lucky.at strike (it) lucky (v.) under strike, v.