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单词 yarraman
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yarramann.

Brit. /ˈjarəmən/, U.S. /ˈjɛrəmən/, Australian English /ˈjærəmən/
Forms: Plural yarramen, yarramans.
Etymology: Australian Aboriginal.
Australian.
A horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun]
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1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. x. 108 A stockman..meets some of the blacks, to whom his first question is ‘You make a light yarraman belonging to me’ (i.e. Have you seen my horses?).
1882 A. J. Boyd Old Colonials 69 There's seventeen yarramen—call 'em thirty pounds a head.
1905–6 ‘T. Collins’ Rigby's Romance (1971) v. 21 He needn't be frightened o' these yarramans. I got them like lambs.
1930 A. Groom Merry Christmas xx. 156 ‘We tie yarraman here,’ he suggested. They fastened their horses to low snags on the dead tree.
1959 S. J. Baker Drum 158 Yarraman, an outlaw horse or wildly behaved station hack.
1964 W. S. Ramson in Southerly i. 58 Other aboriginal words, bora, coolamon, goondie, humpy, and yarraman, came from tribes in the Sydney and Moreton Bay districts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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