| 单词 | coaching cattle |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoaching cattle C3. Australian. As a modifier (in sense 4), designating tame cows or horses used as decoys to catch wild cattle or horses, as in coaching cattle, coaching cow, coaching mob (see mob n.2 6a), etc. ΚΠ 1873 Brisbane Courier 5 Nov. Police officer Gordon summoned Messrs Blacklock, Wylde, and Baxter, of Bridge Creek, for trespassing on Juandah station with coaching cattle. 1906 A. B. Paterson Outback Marriage xviii. 164 ‘There should be a terrible lot of wild cattle here... Don't you ever get any out of the scrubs?’ ‘Oh yes, we moonlight for 'em... We take coachers out. We have a very fair coaching mob.’ 1938 Sunday Sun (Sydney) 19 June (Mag.) 6/3 The quiet coaching cows were released from the stockyard. For three days they were driven.., until the wild cows and calves were sighted. 2001 K. McGinnis Heart Country 301 Dad rode out with them twice, just to hold the coaching mob—the quiet cattle they took with them to run the wilder stuff into. < as lemmas |
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