![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia")
Gone Nomad 24: Flour, ‘post and rail’ tea [...] salt and meat, were the only rations provided.at post-and-rail (tea), n.
Gone Nomad 24: Flour, ‘post and rail’ tea [...] salt and meat, were the only rations provided. Gone Nomad 56: He fought ‘Tiger’ Martin, a professional pugilist and the ‘camp deadener,’ over some affair.at deadener, n.
Gone Nomad 55: Many a gouger [...] was waylaid and robbed of his wad.at gouger, n.
Gone Nomad 13: It was the only university I know—that Bush College of Hard Knocks.at school of hard knocks, n.
Gone Nomad 28: Donkeys, also in common vogue for pack purposes and cart work on some of the runs, were not ‘in it’ with mules.at not in it, phr.
Gone Nomad 10: Gone bughouse with whiskyitis.at -itis, sfx
Gone Nomad 12: My graduation in jackerooing, or, as I usually call this period of my life, my ‘pack-mule and damper days’ had begun.at jackaroo, v.
Gone Nomad 55: Just a hard, bare-knuckle ‘milling’ for the entertainment of the crowd.at milling, n.
Gone Nomad 67: At the border we had been joined by ‘Moleskin’ Harry.at moleskin squatter, n.
Gone Nomad 26: Mulga Jack and I carried a revolver each [...] not that we had any trouble with the myall blacks.at myall, n.
Gone Nomad 15: Here I [...] built a fire, placing beside it my nap.at nap, n.2
Gone Nomad 78: ‘I suppose yer could stop one?’ I could. I needed that rum.at stop one (v.) under one, n.1
Gone Nomad 71: It contained the offer of a job, that of ‘pannikin-boss’* and book-keeper on a sheep run. [*sub-overseer].at pannikin boss (n.) under pannikin, n.
Gone Nomad 55: Beer, whisky, ‘pinky’.at pinkie, n.
Gone Nomad 55: Knuckle-dusting, sandbagging—and being sandbagged—were the recreations and excitements of [...] the inhabitants.at sandbag, v.1
Gone Nomad 27: Next to my dogs and two or three horses of my cattle-camp and sheep-dodging days, these two little jenny pack-mules lie nearest to my heart.at sheep-dodging (n.) under sheep, n.
Gone Nomad 56: Every one carried a ‘shooter’ in his pocket.at shooter, n.1
Gone Nomad 14: I had to take my turn at [...] as ‘slushy’ to ‘Doughboy’ Terry, the cook.at slushy, n.
Gone Nomad 55: ‘There’s no place in this town for squibs,’ he was told.at squib, n.3
Gone Nomad 58: ‘Swagging it’ to a sheep station on the Queensland border, he secured a job.at swag it (v.) under swag, v.
Gone Nomad 74: He won a prize, worth £4000 [...] He was settled for life he said. No more ‘bush yacker’ for him.at yakka, n.
no more results