| 单词 | dry-blower |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdry-blower dry-blower n. Australian (a) a gold-miner; (b) used as a term of opprobrium; (c) (see quot. 1964). ΚΠ 1895 Queenslander 7 Dec. 1069 Every other man you meet in Coolgardie..is either a lord, a colonel, a captain, a doctor, an expert, an agent, a sharebroker, or a sharper; all the rest are dudes, drunkards, and dryblowers, professional liars, and loafers. 1935 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Mar. 10/4 In the early days of the Westralian goldfields it gained me many friends amongst the isolated dryblowers to whom I passed on my weekly copy. 1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xix. 196 There we met Dryblower Tom Mitchell, awaiting the return of his camel-team, to go prospecting. 1964 Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads 208 A ‘dry~blower’ is a crude device, made of hessian and wooden saplings, and used in arid areas for separating gold from the ore. < as lemmas |
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