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Fifty Years on the Old Frontier choose

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[US] J.H. Cook Fifty Years on the Old Frontier 19: Trouble would come to the ‘cow waddie’ who had caused it.
at cow waddie (n.) under cow, n.1
[US] J.H. Cook Fifty Years on the Old Frontier 36: When that hyena comes to camp, you kind o’ mosey around till he puts his gun down.
at mosey, v.
[US] J.H. Cook Fifty Years on the Old Frontier 34: We will roll out tomorrow.
at roll out (v.) under roll, v.
[US] J.H. Cook Fifty Years on the Old Frontier 117: In all classes of men there were drags—‘scrubs’—who managed to ride along by some means.
at scrub, n.1
[US] J.H. Cook Fifty Years on the Old Frontier 22: There were other methods used in catching wild cattle, when they had become [...] so smart or ‘up to trap’ that a decoy herd would not hold them.
at up to trap (adj.) under trap, n.1
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