1880 J. B. Stevenson Seven Years in Austral. Bush 128 Moonlighting on frosty nights is severe work, particularly when there are not many cattle about. We often worked all through a long winter's night..without coming across a single mob.

1881 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 67 The exciting occupation of moonlighting... The object is to capture the cattle that have gone wild.

1962 D. Lockwood I, Aboriginal 172 On clear nights we drove quiet decoy cattle we called ‘coaches’ on to the plains to attract others. This was Moonlighting, the salt of mustering.

1978 C. W. Teece & G. Pike Voice of Wilderness 112 Bushmen experienced in the ways of handling wild cattle use different methods. ‘Moonlighting’ is one way... I would kill a beast and pour some blood on the back of the quiet ‘coachers’. The cattle in the scrubs around would smell it and they would come out.

1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 June 2/1 As Boycotting is preferable to ‘Moonlighting’, so is parliamentary obstruction to physical force.

1883 Cent. Mag. July 330/2 Sometimes well owners ‘torpedo’ their wells stealthily by night to avoid paying the high price charged by the company. This operation is called ‘moonlighting’.

1886 T. H. Huxley in L. Huxley Life & Lett. T. H. Huxley (1900) II. ix. 144 All good men and true should combine to stop this system of literary moonlighting.

1892 Times 9 Dec. 9/1 A gross ‘moonlighting’ outrage is reported from Kerry, where..a party of ten men entered the house of a farmer..and treated him so brutally that he is not expected to recover.

1908 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. 196 1750 The series of moonlighting outrages committed during the last three weeks in the Kilmihill and neighbouring districts of West Clare.

1954 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 23 Mar. 10/1 The moonlighting is not confined to production or hourly-paid workers,..for there are many white collar employees who hold more than one job today.

1961 Economist 16 Dec. 1145/2 Several attempts have been made to ban moonlighting on the ground that it robs the unemployed of jobs.

1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 July 9/3 They can take long coffee breaks and go on shopping trips during office hours; they have plenty of time for moonlighting.

2009 P. Falcone 101 Tough Conversations ii. v. 94 Only you can tell if moonlighting presents a significant conflict of interest to your company.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Aug. 8/2 Small Moonlighting gangs.

1887 Spectator 8 Oct. 1330 One of the moonlighting party that attacked Sexton's house.

1980 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Sept. 666/1 In a moment of inspired upmanship this young moonlighting casualty officer had quietly dropped the word that he was a famous specialist in exotic diseases.

1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 255 Workshops in the writing of fiction, presided over by moonlighting doctoral candidates in literature.