单词 | to ring the shed |
释义 | > as lemmasto ring the shed 19. transitive. Australian and New Zealand slang. To shear more sheep than (other shearers in a shed) in a given period. Also in extended use. Esp. in to ring the shed. Cf. ringer n.1 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > shear sheep [verb (transitive)] > beat at shearing ring1894 1894 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Jan. 7/3 Legge got the run, Fogg cleared, Bell ‘rung’ the shed, and Warte turned out to be a ‘scab’. 1905 in A. B. Paterson Old Bush Songs 27 And once I rung Cudjingie shed, and blued it in a week. 1926 Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Feb. 24/1 What cares the cook if it don't fine up? It's he who'll ring the shed. a1948 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (1951) 372 Sleeveless singlet... Named after the famous Jack Howe who rang many of the South Island sheds in the 1890s. 1957 D. Niland Call me when Cross turns Over v. 132 He would take on anything, wheat-lumping, tree-felling, shearing—always ringing the shed—droving, anything at all that suited him. 1967 Telegraph (Brisbane) 25 Mar. 2/5 To ‘ring the shed’ a shearer's cook has to earn more money than the top shearer. 1989 N.Z. Eng. Newsletter 3 27 Ring, to outdo all other shearers by ‘ringing the board’ or ‘ringing the shed’. 2007 A. Agar Queensland Ringer (2008) ii. 16 I've heard that the bloke that shears the most sheep is the bloke that rings the shed. < as lemmas |
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