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[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Old Melbourne Memories 137: The fierce savages [...] refused to thrive or multiply when ‘cabined, cribbed. confined.’.
at crib, v.4
[Aus] ‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Old Melbourne Memories 140: An odd pair of sawyers, generally ‘Derwenters,’ as the Tasmanian expirees were called.
at derwenter, n.
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