英语词汇“cattle duffing”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. Australian. The action of stealing cattle and (usually) altering their brands. Also more fully cattle duffing.

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1848 Goulburn (New S. Wales) Herald 19 Aug. Cattle stealing, in vulgar parlance ‘duffing’, a crime which was at one time so common in the colony, is now completely in abeyance.

1881 Cheq. Career 329 ‘Cattle-duffing’ and free-bootery.

1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Mar. 23/2 Cattle-duffing is as far removed from sheep-stealing as expert forgery is from snow-dropping among suburban clotheslines.

1994 Canberra Times 26 June 21/2 The steep, heavily dissected country..is full of tales of human drama..including lifelong feuds, cattle duffing and lonely death.

2014 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 22 Aug. 22 [He] had done 3½ years in Lotus Glen after being convicted for his part in the duffing of around 4500 unbranded cattle from company-owned Strathmore Station.

单词	cattle duffing
释义	> as lemmas cattle duffing 2. Australian. The action of stealing cattle and (usually) altering their brands. Also more fully cattle duffing. ΚΠ 1848 Goulburn (New S. Wales) Herald 19 Aug. Cattle stealing, in vulgar parlance ‘duffing’, a crime which was at one time so common in the colony, is now completely in abeyance. 1881 Cheq. Career 329 ‘Cattle-duffing’ and free-bootery. 1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Mar. 23/2 Cattle-duffing is as far removed from sheep-stealing as expert forgery is from snow-dropping among suburban clotheslines. 1994 Canberra Times 26 June 21/2 The steep, heavily dissected country..is full of tales of human drama..including lifelong feuds, cattle duffing and lonely death. 2014 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 22 Aug. 22 [He] had done 3½ years in Lotus Glen after being convicted for his part in the duffing of around 4500 unbranded cattle from company-owned Strathmore Station. extracted from duffingn.¹ < as lemmas
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