bullockern.
/ˈbʊləkə/ 1. A bullock-driver. Australian and New Zealand.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of team of animals > of bullocks
bullock-driver1792
bullock-puncher1856
bull-whacker1858
bull-puncher1872
bullock-wainster1883
bullocker1889
bullocky1889
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. at Bullocky Bullock [e] rs in Australia are as proverbial as bargees or Billingsgate fishwives in England for the forcibleness of their language.
1894 J. K. Arthur Kangaroo & Kauri ii. ii. 91 I once saw..a bullocker who was working along with his team.
2. A ship used for carrying cattle.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying cattle
cow-carrier1666
bullock-ship1858
bullocker1915
1915 J. Sibree Naturalist in Madagascar ii. 20 ‘Bullockers’..were still considered good enough to convey from two to three hundred oxen from Tamatave to Port Louis or Réunion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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n.1889- lean beside one's cushion
- lean beside the cushion
- lean in
- lean into
- lean off something
- lean on
- lean on a broken staff
- lean on the cushion
- lean over backward
- lean to one side
- lean trust to a broken staff
- lean upon
- lean-burn
- lean-chapt
- lean-cheeked
- lean-eared
- lean-faced
- lean-fleshed
- lean-horned
- lean-jawed
- lean-kinded
- lean-looked
- lean-looking
- lean-minded
- lean-necked