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Waler2|ˈweɪlə(r)|
Also waler.
[f. Wale-s (for New South Wales) + -er1.]
1. Anglo-Indian. A horse imported from Australia, esp. from New South Wales. Also, a type of light Australian horse.
1849New South Wales vii. 65 The colonial-bred horses or Walers, as they are called in India. 1888Kipling Plain Tales from Hills, Rout of White Hussars (ed. 3) 215 The Drum-Horse..is nearly always a big piebald Waler. 1897‘R. Boldrewood’ My Run Home xxxiv. 330, ‘I can't imagine any thing but the English thoroughbred worthy to be named in the same day with a high-caste Arab.’.. ‘I'll show you a Waler to-morrow that may convert you.’ 1900H. Lawson Ballad of Cornstalk in Coll. Verse (1967) I. 380 He mounted his waler and rode to the sea (He was sick of the Bush and he longed for a spree). 1945Baker Austral. Lang. iii. 71 Waler, originally a horse exported from New South Wales to India (in modern times, a light type of army horse used in Australia). 1963Weekly News (Auckland, N.Z.) 8 May 38/4 The farm hack is a multi-breed horse—a dash of cob, a little thoroughbred, maybe a touch of the Australian ‘waler’ whose ancestry lies with Dutch and Spanish strains. 1968J. Kiddell Euloowirree Walkabout (1970) xiii. 123 Lord, he exulted, but he's a fast horse. A Waler. One of the descendants of the bush-bred stock, the thoroughbreds of the Outback.
attrib.1873Madras Mail 25 June (Yule), For sale, a brown Waler gelding. 1888Kipling Plain Tales from Hills, Rout of White Hussars (ed. 3) 217 Yale had a big, old, white Waler trap⁓horse.
2. (With capital initial.) A native of New South Wales (or of Australia generally). slang.
1880J. Inglis Our Austral. Cousins xiii. 159 In the matter of awnings and verandahs the ‘Walers’ had a grand chance for a bright, cheerful..display. 1924G. H. A. Willis Royal Navy as I saw It 270 We left the Oceana, which continued her voyage to Australia with the ‘Walers’ (as the Australian passengers were called). 1949Geogr. Mag. Feb. 373 Sydneysider or Waler, a resident of New South Wales. |