| 释义 |
bullocker|ˈbʊləkə(r)|
[f. bullock n. + -er1.]
1. A bullock-driver. Austral. and N.Z.
1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang. s.v. Bullocky, Bullock[e]rs in Australia are as proverbial as bargees or Billingsgate fishwives in England for the forcibleness of their language. 1894J. K. Arthur Kangaroo & Kauri ii. ii. 91, I once saw..a bullocker who was working along with his team.
2. A ship used for carrying cattle.
1915J. Sibree Naturalist in Madagascar ii. 20 ‘Bullockers’..were still considered good enough to convey from two to three hundred oxen from Tamatave to Port Louis or Réunion. |