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In extended use. Australian and New Zealand. An aperture in the wall of a shearing shed through which shorn sheep are passed into a counting-out pen.
U.S. ‘An enclosed steep passageway for animals to pass, as from one corral to another or to railway-cars’ (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). Australian…