| 单词 | boss of the board |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboss of the board boss of the board n. (also boss over the board) [board n. 2d] Australian and New Zealand the overseer of a shearing-shed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer clippera1382 shearer1388 sheep-shearer1539 forcer1553 fleecer1612 tiger1865 tomahawker1870 snagger1887 boss of the board1896 gun1898 jingling Johnny1904 barrowman1940 ryebuck shearera1957 barrower1965 1896 H. Lawson While Billy Boils 89 There are tally lies..and lies about getting the best of squatters and bosses-over-the-board. 1896 H. Lawson While Billy Boils 253 The third shearer was telling a yarn... ‘So I said to the boss-over-the-board, “you're a nice sort of a thing,” I sez’. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xxii. 186 A big strike among the shearers when the narrator had been boss-of-the-board out beyond Bourke. 1948 V. Palmer Golconda vii. 51 Macy the Battler, they had called him at his last shearing-shed after he had tackled a nagging boss-of-the-board. < as lemmas |
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