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Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: He says he's merely ‘battling’ round and looking for a ‘cut’.at battle, v.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: He says he's merely ‘battling’ round and looking for a ‘cut’. Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: But ‘going in’ in time of strike on any terms, to grab, / He doesn’t know as blacklegging but simply calls it ‘scab’.at blackleg, v.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: His boss he gives some funny names, when he can’t hear the joke. / He calls him ‘joint’ and ‘finger,’ and he sometimes calls him ‘bloke’.at bloke, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: And when he gets a reprimand, or gentle kind of ‘tip,’ / He tells you in a whisper that "he got a blooming “chip.”’.at chip, n.4
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: But one poor beast, I must declare, he positively hates, / And tries his best through ev’ry ‘run’ to leave him for his mates! / l mean the wrinkly ‘cobbler’ who by everyone is passed, / And left inside the catching-pen until the very last.at cobbler, n.1
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: [He] knocks about the whole year long around his drought-struck isle, / Across a wiry ‘cuddy’ whom he calls his
‘crocodile’.at crocodile, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: Now when the shed at last ‘cuts out’ he gets his ‘little bit,’ / And straps his ‘peter’ on his ‘croc’ and quickly does a get.at crocodile, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: [He] knocks about the whole year long around his drought-struck isle, / Across a wiry ‘cuddy’ whom he calls his
‘crocodile’.at cuddy, n.1
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: Now when the shed at last ‘cuts out’ he gets his ‘little bit,’ / And straps his ‘peter’ on his ‘croc’ and quickly does a get.at cut out, v.3
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: A decent cook he calls his ‘doc,’ and makes of him a god, / A bad one is a ‘poisoner,’ a ‘slushie’ and a ‘sod.’.at doc, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: To shear a thou. or more a week, which is but seldom done, / Will gain a shearer high respect and title of ‘gun.’.at gun, n.1
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: His boss he gives some funny names, when he can't hear the joke. / He calls him ‘joint’ and ‘finger,’ and he sometimes calls him ‘bloke’.at joint, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: The ‘rouseabout,’ his willing slave, who's ever on the spot / To take the falling fleece away and fill his ‘water pot,’ / He sneeringly terms ‘loppy’ and a ‘leather-neck,’ and if / He doesn't ‘chuck’ himself about he swears to knock him stiff.at leatherneck, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: By ‘lizards’ he means musterers, sometimes he calls them ‘snails’.at lizard, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: The ‘rouseabout,’ his willing slave, who's ever on the spot / To take the falling fleece away and fill his ‘water pot,’ / He sneeringly terms ‘loppy’ and a ‘leather-neck,’ and if / He doesn't ‘chuck’ himself about he swears to knock him stiff.at loppy, n.1
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: And if you like to learn a bit about the ‘Mulga Clan’ — Just listen to the patter of the Western shearer-man.at mulga, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: Now when the shed at last ‘cuts out’ he gets his ‘little bit,’ / And straps his ‘peter’ on his ‘croc’ and quickly does a get.at peter, n.3
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: A decent cook he calls his ‘doc,’ and makes of him a god, / A bad one is a ‘poisoner,’ a ‘slushie’ and a ‘sod.’.at poisoner, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: But when he puts the ‘stopper’ on, because he finds he's broke, / He swears that he was ‘raddled’ by that shanty-keeper ‘bloke’.at raddle, v.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: And — I will lay an oil-rag to a pound of ‘Darling Pea’ — / He gallops straight away towards a ‘rubbie’ for ‘a spree’.at rubbedy, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: But ‘going in’ in time of strike on any terms, to grab, / He doesn’t know as blacklegging but simply calls it ‘scab’.at scab, v.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: Poor Billy Mayne has got ‘the spear’ and Dick his mate is ‘shot’!at get shot (v.) under shot, adj.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: While he who ‘crawls’ and ‘runs the cut,’ and lacks a bushman’s pluck, / Is known by men as ‘smoodger,’ while the tar-boys call him ‘suck.’.at smoodger, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: But stop awhile — have you remarked how many ‘guns’ we meet / Away from sheds in private bars and mashing in the street? / Now, for the sake of simple maids, let's write it here in tar : / ‘Poor 'snaggers’ (50 sheep a day) — that’s what they mostly are!at snagger, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: By ‘lizards’ he means musterers, sometimes he calls them ‘snails’.at snail, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: A decent cook he calls his ‘doc,’ and makes of him a god, / A bad one is a ‘poisoner,’ a ‘slushie’ and a ‘sod.’.at sod, n.1
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: Poor Billy Mayne has got ‘the spear’ and Dick his mate is ‘shot’!at get the spear (v.) under spear, n.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/3: A pound a hundred, ‘in or out,’ with rules and tucker fair, / He designates as ‘working white’ and shearing ‘on the square’.at on the square under square, adj.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: The ‘rouseabout,’ his willing slave, who's ever on the spot / [...] / He sneeringly terms ‘loppy’ and a ‘leather-neck,’ and if / He doesn't ‘chuck’ himself about he swears to knock him stiff.at knock stiff (v.) under stiff, adj.
Worker (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 8/4: But when he puts the ‘stopper’ on, because he finds he's broke, / He swears that he was ‘raddled’ by that shanty-keeper ‘bloke’.at stopper, n.1
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