| 单词 | tar-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmastar-boy tar-boy n. Australian and New Zealand an assistant hand in a shearing shed who treats injured sheep with tar or other disinfectants. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer > other personnel rouseabout1861 tar-boy1888 bluetongue1900 broomie1933 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. x. 123 There wasn't a man of the lot in the shed, down to the tarboy, that wouldn't have done the same. 1910 A. H. Davis From Select. to City vii. 55 Steele can get his name down for tar-boy. 1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad iii. 19 Then I found myself a tar-boy in the shearing-shed. 1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) 157 Tar-boy, the hand who walks the board where sheep are subject to the fly and who puts a smear of tar on the cuts made on sheep. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds x. 231 Luke took himself off on the shearing circuit as a tar boy, slapping molten tar on jagged wounds if a shearer slipped and cut flesh as well as wool. < as lemmas |
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