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gully-rakingnoun [mass noun] Australian / NZ historical1The practice of rounding up or stealing unbranded livestock from remote areas: everybody does a spot of gully-raking now and then...- I was gully-raking with a mate in the mountains at the back of Richmond.
- I had now to resort to what is termed moonlighting and gully-raking.
- Cattle duffing and gully-raking for wandered livestock were in some cases a prelude to bushranging.
2The practice of searching for surface gold: gold-mining on this field is now confined to gully-raking...- The principal work has been mere gully-raking or surfacing in the bed of the creek.
- Where gullies were worked to a shallow depth, the process was known as 'gully raking'.
- The fossicker goes gully-raking into old gullies and worked-out creeks.
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