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Breaker Morant: A Horseman Who Made History choose

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[Aus] H. Morant ‘Slewed!’ in Cutlack Breaker Morant (1962) 137: Whilst Paddy, half screwed, / Ne’er dreamt for an instant how much he was slewed.
at slewed, adj.
[Aus] H. Morant ‘Beyond His Jurisdiction’ in Cutlack Breaker Morant (1962) 144: Bid him roll his dusty swag up, or I’ll break his no-good neck.
at no-good, adj.
[Aus] H. Morant letter in Cutlack Breaker Morant (1962) 28: When I came over here the other day it was to participate in a hurrah spree to finish the bachelor days of the manager here.
at hurrah, adj.
[Aus] H. Morant ‘Beyond His Jurisdiction’ in Cutlack Breaker Morant (1962) 144: For the boss began to language, and ‘The Ranger’ languaged back.
at language, v.
[Aus] H. Morant letter in Cutlack Breaker Morant (1962) 28: Most fellows up here generally get shook on [...] some other fellow’s spouse.
at shook on (adj.) under shook, adj.
[Aus] H. Morant ‘Good Things Which Remain’ in Cutlack Breaker Morant (1962) 156: Cattle-dog Bluey, now what do you think? / Cunningest dog upon all the earth!
at bluey, n.1
[Aus] H. Morant letter in Cutlack Breaker Morant (1962) 64: You will know how cut up we must have been over poor Hunt’s death.
at cut up, adj.1
[Aus] H. Morant ‘Butchered to Make a Dutchman’s Holiday’ in Cutlack Breaker Morant (1962) 176: Let’s toss a bumper down our throat / Before we pass to Heaven, / And toast: ‘the trim-set petticoat / We leave behind in Devon’.
at bumper, n.2
[Aus] F.M. Cutlack Breaker Morant 59: The bad hats in Picton’s part of the detachment were returned to Pietersburg.
at bad hat, n.
[Aus] F.M. Cutlack Breaker Morant 30: They were jackerooing together on Nelungaloo station in the eighties.
at jackaroo, v.
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