| 释义 |
Derwenter Australia.|ˈdɜːwəntə(r)|
[named from the river Derwent in Tasmania, on the banks of which was a convict settlement.]
A released convict.
1853J. Rochfort Adventures of Surveyor in N.Z. ii. 16 Here we engaged a new steward..who I think was a Derwenter from what I have since seen of him. 1884Boldrewood Melb. Mem. xx. 140 An odd pair of Sawyers, generally ‘Derwenters’ as the Tasmanian expirees were called. 1892in Lentzner Australian Word-bk. 20. |