| 单词 | road party |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad party road party n. Australian now historical) = road gang n. ΚΠ 1822 J. T. Bigge Rep. State Colony New S. Wales 38 The labour of the road partie..exposes the convicts to the evil effects of slight control and great temptation. 1900 W. Delaforce Life & Experiences Ex-convict Port Macquarie 35 When a man had finished his sentence in the chain gang, he was sentenced to a road party, and it was Heaven to the chain gang. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. ix. 182 Heavy boots were called road party boots. 2006 Frankston (Austral.) Standard (Nexis) 6 Mar. 8 He was given hard labour in a road party for using bad language. < as lemmas |
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