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Station Life in New Zealand choose

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[NZ] M.A. Barker Station Life in N.Z. 126: Two gentlemen of the proposed party were ‘new chums’ like myself.
at new chum, n.
[NZ] M.A. Barker Station Life in N.Z. 110: These small farmers are called Cockatoos in Australia by the squatters and sheep-farmers who dislike them for buying up the best bits of land.
at cockatoo, n.2
[NZ] M.A. Barker Station Life in N.Z. 191: We were politely told to ‘wire in,’ – digger’s phraseology for an invitation to commence.
at digger, n.1
[NZ] M.A. Barker Station Life in N.Z. 191: He was terribly hard-up for anything which he had not read.
at hard-up, adj.
[NZ] M.A. Barker Station Life in N.Z. 45: Her horse must have been quieter and better broken than they generally are. F--- says that probably it was a very old ‘station screw’.
at screw, n.1
[NZ] M.A. Barker Station Life in N.Z. 126: All the ‘swags’ had to be packed and apportioned for the very long and steep ascent.
at swag, n.1
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