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On Track 41: ‘What are we to do now?’ enquired Andy, who was the hardest grafter, but altogether helpless, hopeless, and useless in a crisis like this.at grafter, n.2
On Track 41: ‘What are we to do now?’ enquired Andy, who was the hardest grafter, but altogether helpless, hopeless, and useless in a crisis like this. On the Wool Track 163: ‘Look out you don’t lose your old barrel of fat’ means ‘Mind you don’t lose your hat.’ Shirt is probably ‘old lump of dirt,’ and pony ‘Pat Maloney’.at barrel of fat, n.
On the Wool Track 247: A ‘boss bullock-driver’ [...] is a considerable man. Very often he is a steady one. A ‘boss bullocky’ is a man who owns his own team, and perhaps more than one.at boss, adj.
On the Wool Track 170: ’E couldn’t cook. ’E couldn’t even bake a blanky brownie.at brownie, n.1
On the Wool Track 251: There have been brutes of bullockies, just as there have been brutes of bishops.at bullocky, n.
On the Wool Track 64: Cocky’s joy is golden syrup in 2-lb. tins, costing sevenpence—four times as cheap as jam.at cocky’s delight (n.) under cocky, n.2
On the Wool Track 163: ‘Look out you don’t lose your old barrel of fat’ means ‘Mind you don’t lose your hat.’ Shirt is probably ‘old lump of dirt,’ and pony ‘Pat Maloney’.at lump of dirt, n.
On the Wool Track 226: A few sharpers [...] often get into a big shed, and get a ‘school’ going—a nightly gamble. They are regularly called ‘forties’—the forty thieves—and they sometimes make a pile out of young shearers.at forty, n.
On the Wool Track 243: I’ll give you sometin’ to go on wid, by ghost I will.at by ghost! (excl.) under ghost, n.
On the Wool Track 50: Seeing men so seldom, he came not to wish to see them—a ‘hatter’ they called him for his madness.at hatter, n.1
On the Wool Track 27: Whilst the ‘inside’ stations may grow [sheep] for meat if they care, the ‘outside’ stations grow for wool.at inside, n.1
On the Wool Track 41: When the boss is young, working on his father’s station, or jackerooing.at jackaroo, v.
On the Wool Track 223: ‘You lazy, long-nose scoundrel,’ I said, facing him.at long-nosed, adj.
On the Wool Track 163: ‘Look out you don’t lose your old barrel of fat’ means ‘Mind you don’t lose your hat.’ Shirt is probably ‘old lump of dirt,’ and pony ‘Pat Maloney’.at Pat Maloney, n.
On the Wool Track 125: A fair-haired nuggety ganger with long arms like a gorilla.at nuggety, adj.
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