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单词 red steer
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red steer
red steer n. Australian slang a fire; esp. a bush fire.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > destructive > bush or forest fire
prairie fire1824
bush-fire1847
brush-fire1850
crown fire1893
red steer1936
1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 21May 20/3 There had been a number of grass fires in the district, and suspicion falling on ‘Monkey’ Brown..he was accused of loosing the ‘red bull’ on the community.]
1936 J. Devanny Sugar Heaven 100 I put ‘red steer’ in cane. That'll fix the bloody bosses.
1963 J. Cantwell No Stranger to Flame 12 The cane-cutters, made negro by sun and by soot from fires (Red Steers, they called them).
2005 G. Main Heartland 181 One farmer recalled a tube of fire speeding across paddocks, flames coiled and rolling—the fabled ‘red steer’ of Australian wildfire.
extracted from redadj.n.adv.
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