A cook, typically one catering for shearers or other agricultural workers.
the bait layer's eyes were like onions in a field of grey stubble
Example sentencesExamples
- Cooking for a number of people is a complicated business and anything to make the bait-layer's job easier should be done.
- Put him up aboard there and take him back to the bait layer.
- Hooroo, you Bait Layer! I'd need binoculars to even notice yer tiny lunch rations.
- He was the Jewish Aboriginal bait-layer from backblocks Queensland.
- For a joke, they will refer to their cook as "the bait-layer."