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[Aus] E.J. Overbury ‘Wallaby Track’ in Stewart & Keesing Old Bush Songs (1957) 233: There are others who stick during sheaving, Then shoulder their swags on their back; For the rest of the year they’ll be steering On their well-beloved Wallaby Track.
at wallaby track (n.) under wallaby, n.
[Aus] in Stewart & Keesing Old Bush Songs (1957) 80: You’ll scarcely live a six-months; if you do, then beggar me! / The advice of a jackeroo – not long from the old countree – / The squatters here, ’tis very clear, have had the loan of me.
at get the loan of (v.) under loan, n.
[Aus] ‘Another Fall of Rain’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 29: Some are playing music and some play ante up.
at ante-up, n.
[Aus] ‘The Broken-down Squatter’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 56: When the bigwigs are brought to the Bankruptcy Court, / What chance for a squatter like me.
at bigwig, n.
[Aus] ‘My Mate Bill’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 70: But blame my cats if I know what else / They’ll find for Bill to do.
at blame, v.
[Aus] ‘On the Road to Gundagai’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 24: So we humped our blues serenely and made for Sydney town.
at bluey, n.1
[Aus] ‘It’s Only a Way He’s Got’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 85: Says she, ‘Oh, take no notice, Bob, / It’s only a way he’s got.’.
at Bob, n.1
[Aus] ‘John Gilbert (Bushranger)’ ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 36: Although they make a bobbery / About our tricks we have never done a tip-top thing in robbery.
at bobbery, n.
[Aus] ‘The Overlander’ ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 120: I tried to coax, then bounce him, / But my tin I had to squander.
at bounce, v.1
[Aus] ‘Mustering Song’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 112: I was close up stuck in a rotten bog; / I got a buster jumping a log.
at buster, n.1
[Aus] ‘The Old Survey’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 17: On the tap-room wall, in a very bad scrawl. / He has chalked to us a sum.
at chalk, v.2
[Aus] ‘Mustering Song’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 112: Now the scrub grows thick and the cattle are wild, / A regular caution to this ’ere child.
at child, n.
[Aus] ‘Sam Holt’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 72: You were not the cleanest potato, Sam Holt, / You had not the cleanest of fins.
at clean potato (n.) under clean, adj.
[Aus] ‘The Murrumbidgee Shearer’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 94: Oh, yes, my jolly dandies, I’ve done it on the cross [...] The traps have often chased me more times than can be told.
at on the cross under cross, n.1
[Aus] ‘Bold Jack Donahoo’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 31: As Donahoo was cruising, one summer’s afternoon, / Little was his notion his death was near so soon.
at cruise, v.
[Aus] ‘Another Fall of Rain’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 17: When the money’s done, and we’ve had our fun , / We all are bound to ride.
at done, adj.
[Aus] ‘Sam Holt’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 73: You were flashing your dover, six short months ago, / In a lambing camp on the Barcoo.
at dover, n.1
[Aus] ‘On the Road to Gundagai’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 25: In a week the spree was over and the cheque was all knocked down.
at knock down, v.
[Aus] ‘Sam Holt’ ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 72: They say you’ve ten thousand per annum, Sam Holt, / In England, a park and a drag.
at drag, n.1
[Aus] ‘The Old Keg of Rum’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 91: For to give another drain / The old keg would refuse.
at drain, n.1
[Aus] ‘The Eumerella Shore’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 47: For it’s easier duffing cattle on the little piece of land / free selected on the Eumerella shore.
at duff, v.1
[Aus] ‘Sam Holt’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 71: The Warrego gin, with the straw through her nose, / And teeth like a Moreton Bay shark.
at gin, n.1
[Aus] ‘The Broken-down Squatter’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 56: And it’s hard on a ‘hoss’ when he’s nought for a boss, / But a broken-down squatter like me!
at horse, n.
[Aus] ‘It’s Only a Way He’s Got’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 84: Says she, ‘The night is very cold, / Pray, stand a drop of Hot’.
at hot, n.
[Aus] ‘The Swagman’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 96: But at breakfast I cuts off enough / For dinner, don’t you see, / And then my name is Walker. Oh! don’t you pity me.
at my name is Walker, phr.
[Aus] ‘The Wallaby Brigade’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 126: You’ve only to sport your dover and knock a monkey over [i.e. to kill a sheep] — There’s cheap mutton for the Wallaby Brigade.
at knock over, v.
[Aus] ‘The Overlander’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 119: For I’m a regular knowing card, / The Queensland overlander.
at knowing, adj.
[Aus] ‘The Murrumbidgee Shearer’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 93: I went up to a station, and there I got a job; / Plunged in the store, and hooked it, with a very tidy lob.
at lob, n.1
[Aus] ‘Broken-down Squatter’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 56: But the farce has been played, and the Government aid, / Ain’t extended to squatters, old son.
at old man, n.
[Aus] ‘On the Road to Gundagai’ in ‘Banjo’ Paterson Old Bush Songs 25: So we shouldered our ‘Matildas,’ and we turned our back on town.
at matilda, n.
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