Green’s Dictionary of Slang
F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 28: Home-made ginger-beer, called in our camp parlance a ‘pickaxe’. [Ibid.] 125: [He] cools his brow and whets his hopes in pontac and gingerbeer, ‘pickaxe,’ or some such compound.at pick-axe, n.
F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 46: So devious was the journey [...] that passengers from ‘the Bay’ did not hope to reach their journey’s end before the eighth day.at Bay, the, n.
F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 273: With many a ‘liquor-up,’ and many a joke [...] we wended our way.at liquor-up, n.
F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 282: What was it the Totty said about a robbery in camp?at tottie, n.1
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