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Life and Labour I. 202: The work of the casuals was a dead loss to the contractor.at casual, n.1
Life and Labour I. 202: The work of the casuals was a dead loss to the contractor. Life and Labour in Aus. 71: This generally meant [...] extensive preparation for a day’s ‘Blackbird’ shooting.at blackbird, n.1
Life and Labour in Aus. 30: Ararat was doomed to fall back for its existence upon the precarious conditions attached to ‘cockatooing’.at cockatoo, v.
Life and Labour in Aus. 36: Bush fare in the shape of ‘damper,’ ‘dough boys,’ and ‘beggars on the coals’.at devil-on-the-coals (n.) under devil, n.
Life and Labour in Aus. 22: Others [...] have wandered on the track – sundowning – and on the ‘wallaby’ have ‘humped their drum’.at hump one’s drum (v.) under drum, n.5
Life and Labour in Aus. 116: I stayed about the camp for a time, having a chat with my coloured friend ‘Jacky’.at jacky jacky, n.
Life and Labour in Aus. 106: One white man, one Kanaka, or South Sea Islander, one fat Chinaman.at Kanaka, n.
Life and Labour in Aus. 44: We were dubious as to whether he was the ‘Boss’ or the knockabout Joey.at knockabout man, n.
Life and Labour in Aus. 31: No sooner do we ‘breast the bar’ than a huge rough-and-ready miner accosts us thusly, [...] ‘What’s your lotion?’.at lotion, n.
Life and Labour in Aus. 57: From this point the responsibilities of the ‘Overlander Boss’ begin. [...] The ‘Boss,’ who takes the contract to deliver the cattle.at overlander, n.
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