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Notes and Sketches of New South Wales 132: The bush-rangers in robbing a house [...] walk quietly in and ‘bail up,’ i.e. bind with cords, or otherwise secure, the male portion, leaving an armed guard over them.at bail up, v.
Notes and Sketches of New South Wales 132: The bush-rangers in robbing a house [...] walk quietly in and ‘bail up,’ i.e. bind with cords, or otherwise secure, the male portion, leaving an armed guard over them. Notes and Sketches of New South Wales 132: A party of mounted police went in search of a very daring gang of bush-rangers, or, as they are sometimes called, ‘bolters’.at bolter, n.
Notes and Sketches of New South Wales 93: The unfortunate Gins perform all the labour.at gin, n.1
Notes and Sketches of New South Wales 117: I have [...] watched with great interest the poor locust ‘shuffle off his mortal’,’ or rather earthy coil, and emerge into a new world.at shuffle (off) (this/one’s mortal coil) (v.) under shuffle, v.
Notes and Sketches of New South Wales 106: The word ‘waddie,’ [...] commonly applied to the weapons of the New South Wales aborigines.at waddy, n.
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